Greetings, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)!
>>Could you please do me a favor and repeat the test with a little deviation of
>>my previous suggestion?
>>1. Remove /etc/{nsswitch.conf,passwd,group} files. (Rename, move away - by
>>your choice.)
>>2. Stop cygserver, if it is running, and any other Cygwin-related programs.
>>3. Start the mintty (elevated, if need) with write access to /etc. Supposedly,
>>this will be slow.
>>4. Make sure id -G lists all the groups you're member of.
>>The `id -znG | tr "\0" "\n"` would probably be more visible.
>>5. Repeat the steps from previous suggestion.
>> getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
>> getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
>> printf "%s\n" "passwd: files db" "group: files db" > /etc/nsswitch.conf
>> 6. Close and restart mintty
> After I'd run the id -znG, it found 87 groups.
> Then I did this (even with cygserver running)
> ~ getent passwd $(id -u) > /etc/passwd
> ~ getent group $(id -G) > /etc/group
> 0 [main] getent 48156 transport_layer_pipes::connect: lost connection
> to cygserver, error = 2
That prompts to repeat the previous question from Corinna: are you by chance
remote from your DC? (VPN connection?)
> ~ wc -l /etc/group
> 58 /etc/group
> Since it seems like cygserver stopped, it took a while to complete.
> Anyway, with cygserver stopped, I ran the getent again elevated and got 83.
> ~ wc -l /etc/group
> 83 /etc/group
83 vs. 87, still not the right number.
> Not really sure how many groups I'm a member of (in another tool), but seems
> about right.
Anyway, how was the results after these manipulations?
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 18.02.2015, <13:41>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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