Re: Avoiding /etc/passwd and /etc/group scans

2002-10-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I've checked this in. If this solves the majority of the ntsec complaints, > I may even send you a medal. > > If I had any idea that turning on ntsec by default would cause this much > pain, I don't think I would have considered it. Thanks. By the way the patch can

Re: Avoiding /etc/passwd and /etc/group scans

2002-10-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:22:46PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Anyway, I'll take a look at your patch later today, Pierre. I've checked this in. If this solves the majority of the ntsec complaints, I may even send you a medal. If I had any idea that turning on ntsec by default would cause

Re: Avoiding /etc/passwd and /etc/group scans

2002-10-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:01:59AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >Cygwin scans the passwd and group files to map sids >to/from uid & gid. It does so even for the current user, >although the relevant mappings are stored internally. >This is inefficient and causes problems (e.g. gcc produces >non e