Hi Corinna,
>> >If you only want to use the content of your passwd and group files,
>> >rather than the db (which is pretty much upside down from what this
>> >patch is trying to accomplish, but, anyway), simply change your
>> >/etc/nsswitch.conf file accordingly. Just as on Linux.
>>
>> :-) My /
Hi Corinna,
>> However, as you know, the supplementary group to which I referred above do
>> NOT show
>> up in my /etc/group file on Cygwin (they show up in SAM ... somewhere).
>>
>> ... and I do not care, as these groups are NOT relevant to me as a
>> Cygwin-only user
>> of the Windows operatin
Hi Corinna,
>> Now that the XP bug is out of the way ... I would like come back to the
>> change in
>> the output of 'id'.
>>
>> Obviously, everything after '545(Users),' in the output of 'id' are
>> "well-known"
>> concepts (Windows) to you (but, not to me) ...
>
>I explained that in my mail an
Hi Corinna,
>> What I meant was:
>>
>> The output of 'id' in my "regular setup" shows:
>>
>> @@# id
>> uid=1003(Henri) gid=513(None)
>> groups=513(None),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users)
>>
>> The output of 'id' in the "test setup" shows:
>>
>> $ id
>> uid=1003(Henri) gid=513(None)
>> group
Hi Corinna,
>Can you please just test the today's snapshot which should show up
>soon on the http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ page.
Like Andrey I tested the 19/2 snapshot of today (x86).
For good measure, I again started afresh ...
getpwent (db_enum: local) no longer crashes. Splendid!
Henri
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Hi Andrey,
>>>I'm going to make some tests on XP, but if I can't track this down,
>>>would you mind if I send you a test Cygwin DLL with extended debug
>>>output to help tracking it down?
>
>> The best thing to do, I believe, if you want to fix 'XP' (my machine may
>> turn out
>> to be a "misfit"
Hi Corinna,
(Sorry, have't found time to properly subscribe to the list, yet)
>> Both cases show the same output:
>>
>> $ ./lsa
>> pdom name: dnsname: <(null)>, sid: 0x0
>> adom name: sid: 0x246058
I "lied" here :-) The non-admin case showed: ... sid: 0x246060
(So, almost the same)
>Huh. Thi
Hi Corinna,
>The crash looks weird. It looks like your machine doesn't return
>the machine sid when it's requested. Can you please run the following
>test application as non-admin and as admin and paster the output for
>both cases into your reply? Hmm, maybe that's a windows XP thingy?
>I didn'
Hi Corinna,
>> After I had set up /etc/nsswitch.conf as follows
>>
>> db_enum: files
>>
>> the output of getpwent and getgrent looked "familiar" to me. (though the
>> output of 'id' is not).
>
>In how far? Did you read my text in terms of how user and group names
>are created? The leading separa
Hi Corinna,
To answer some of your questions ...
>> How did you build getpwent? Did you stop your Cygwin shell and restart
>> it? Can you please send the getpwent.exe.stackdump file?
I used my "regular" setup of Cygwin to compile the sourcefile. Perhaps it is
there where I went wrong.
gcc -o
>> this week I applied the first incarnation of the new passwd/group
>> handling code to the Cygwin repository and after fixing a crash which
>> manifested in Denis Excoffier's network, I think we're at a point
>> which allows to push this forward.
>> [...]
>
>Ok guys, I just applied a patch implem
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