Hi Corinna,
For a rainy day ... really ;-)
Although you think about mkpasswd/mkgroup as mere helper tools (in the "future"
release of Cygwin),
I would like to draw your attention to some pecularities in the output of these
programs.
Note: mkpasswd/mkgroup were extracted from the latest snapshot
(x86/cygwin-inst-20141127.tar.xz)
- mkpasswd -l: most (but not all) 'S-1-5-21-X-Y-Z accounts/SIDs' have a gecos
field of THREE members
(iso two members)
- the original mkpasswd (test release) also has this pecularity
- mkgroup -l: one 'S-1-5-21-X-Y-Z SID' (HelpLibraryUpdaters) is NOT
'translated' according to
the rule: S-1-5-21-X-Y-Z-RID <=> uid/gid: 0x30000 + RID; the other one
(None) is ...
To me this output is inconsistent (and that why I am reporting this). To me
this NOT a problem (anymore),
because I have decided to use mkpasswd/mkgroup withOUT option (of which the
output is correct).
(of course, I may be wrong -- it is possible that I made a mistake somewhere --
it is possible that I
am not correctly informed about matters. Sorry, in that case).
Henri
@@ uname -a # stand-alone machine
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Seven 1.7.34(0.281/5/3) 2014-11-13 16:14 i686 Cygwin
@@ mkpasswd # this output is CORRECT
SYSTEM:*:18:18:U-NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM,S-1-5-18:/home/SYSTEM:/bin/bash
LOCAL SERVICE:*:19:19:,S-1-5-19:/:/sbin/nologin
NETWORK SERVICE:*:20:20:,S-1-5-20:/:/sbin/nologin
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:/:/sbin/nologin
TrustedInstaller:*:328384:328384:,S-1-5-80-956008885-3418522649-1831038044-1853292631-2271478464:/:/sbin/nologin
Administrator:*:197108:197121:U-Seven\Administrator,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
Guest:*:197109:197121:U-Seven\Guest,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash
Henri:*:197608:197121:U-Seven\Henri,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1000:/home/Henri:/bin/bash
...
Test:*:197614:197121:U-Seven\Test,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1006:/home/Test:/bin/bash
UpdatusUser:*:197609:197121:U-Seven\UpdatusUser,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1001:/home/UpdatusUser:/bin/bash
@@ mkpasswd -l # this output is inconsistent <====
SYSTEM:*:18:18:U-NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM,S-1-5-18:/home/SYSTEM:/bin/bash
LOCAL SERVICE:*:19:19:,S-1-5-19:/:/sbin/nologin
NETWORK SERVICE:*:20:20:,S-1-5-20:/:/sbin/nologin
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:/:/sbin/nologin
TrustedInstaller:*:328384:328384:,S-1-5-80-956008885-3418522649-1831038044-1853292631-2271478464:/:/sbin/nologin
Administrator:*:197108:197121:U-Seven\Administrator,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
Guest:*:197109:197121:U-Seven\Guest,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash
Henri:*:197608:197121:U-Seven\Henri,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1000:/home/Henri:/bin/bash
...
Test:*:197614:197121:Test,U-Seven\Test,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1006:/home/Test:/bin/bash
^^^^ <==== gecos field has THREE members (iso two)
UpdatusUser:*:197609:197121:UpdatusUser,U-Seven\UpdatusUser,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1001:/home/UpdatusUser:/bin/bash
^^^^^^^^^^^ <==== ditto
@@ mkgroup | tail -2 # this output is CORRECT
HelpLibraryUpdaters:S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1007:197615:
None:S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-513:197121:
@@ mkgroup -l | tail -2 # this output is inconsistent <====
HelpLibraryUpdaters:S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1007:4244636655:
^^^^^^^^^^ =
0xfd000000 + 1007
None:S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-513:197121:
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