Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
> But, anyway, you asked for it, you got it. I applied a patch to > mkpasswd/mkgroup to generate uids/gids for the local machine always > using the same offset as when Cygwin computes them. > > Check out the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna, I did :-) @@ uname -a CYGWIN_

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
> On Nov 27 18:41, Houder wrote: >> > On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: >> >> Hi Corinna, >> >> >> >> For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without >> >> /etc/nsswitch.conf present. Without it, my machine >> >> is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign >> >>

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 18:41, Houder wrote: > > On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: > >> Hi Corinna, > >> > >> For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without > >> /etc/nsswitch.conf present. Without it, my machine > >> is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign > >> machine'

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
> On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: >> Hi Corinna, >> >> For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without /etc/nsswitch.conf >> present. Without it, my machine >> is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign >> machine'. Strikes me as ... >> >> Until now, I believ

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without /etc/nsswitch.conf > present. Without it, my machine > is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign > machine'. Strikes me as ... > > Until now, I believed that

Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without /etc/nsswitch.conf present. Without it, my machine is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign machine'. Strikes me as ... Until now, I believed that the output of mkpasswd/mkgroup had no dependenc