On Nov 6 20:51, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 6 19:34, Christian Franke wrote: > >>But why does > >> mkpasswd -l (no host) -- adds a prefix > >> mkpasswd -l THISHOST -- does not add a prefix > >>when the machine is in a domain? Not consistent, IMO. > >That's right. The reason is that the machine name is treated as a > >foreign machine. In theory, this should always generate names > >with prefixed machine name, but this is an entirely different > >code path in mkpasswd/mkgroup. I guess this should be fixed. > > > >I wouldn't be unhappy about help... > > I would only fix it back to the old behaviour (mkpasswd -l = no prefix), > sorry :-) > > At my real job we run several build & test machines which are members of a > domain but use various local test user accounts (with no collision with > domain users due to name space rules). Loosing the ability to use > prefix-less local user names would break various existing test scripts > (which are also used on Linux). > > Generated emails would have a from address with HOST+USER name part which > might give interesting results if the mail system somehow interprets the > NAME+EXTENSION address syntax... > > So there are use cases where prefix-less local user names are needed. This > should be still supported, e.g. by mkpasswd -l, IMO.
But then... why not keep mkpasswd -L and use that instead? > >>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. > > The 'PLEASE keep ...' was only related to the new csih script. It should be > able to optionally put prefix-less local usernames to /etc/passwd. PTC? As I wrote, I hope I have something ready next week, but the csih heler script is pretty complicated. I never expected having to maintain it :( Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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