On Nov 6 19:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 6 19:34, Christian Franke wrote: > > But PLEASE keep the ability to create local users/groups without a prefix. > > Otherwise useful configuration defaults (mail_owner=postfix, ...) would be > > no longer useful because config files must be tweaked for each host > > (mail_owner=HOST+postfix, ...) for the sole purpose of[1]. Some of such > > technical users (sshd?) might also be hard coded or a config parser might > > not like the HOST+USER syntax. > > And how's that supposed to work? Even if we introduce a way in > /etc/nsswitch.conf to generate usernames differently, it doesn't really > help. Your config file should be able to work with default settings > and not force the admin to use specific settings in nsswitch.conf.
Btw., sshd contains a patch to allow sshd as well as MACHINE+sshd as
account name for the unprivileged privsep account. There's a new
system call in Cygwin for that very purpose:
#include <sys/cygwin.h>
cygwin_internal (CW_CYGNAME_FROM_WINNAME, "unprefixed-accountname",
username_buffer, sizeof username_buffer);
See the comment in external.cc, under the CW_CYGNAME_FROM_WINNAME case.
Corinna
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