> At 03:05 PM 2/6/2003 -, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Truncation by ls shouldn't matter much. I would say that a new user
>> is more likely to notice "run mkpa" than "mkpasswd".
Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Max got exactly right why I had put the "run" in.
> 1.3.19 already contains an embryo of the id
At 03:05 PM 2/6/2003 -, Max Bowsher wrote:
+ if (myself->uid == UNKNOWN_UID)
+ strcpy (group_name, "run mkpasswd"); /* Feedback... */
>>>
>>> I've changed that to just "mkpasswd".
>>>
>>> I don't like to introduce group names with spaces in it. And since
>>> they are longer than
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:24:53AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> ChangeLog (needed?):
Yes, always!
> 2003-02-06 Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * ntsec.sgml: Add note on special names for missing
> user/group.
Applied.
Thanks,
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> I just had another really wild idea (feel free to ignore): since we want
> this visible in the "ls" output, suppose ls recognized these special names
> you are going to use (whatever they are), and used the existing
> "--color=auto" mechanism to ou
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:49:59PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Yes, it is. What I meant was "files show up in the 'ls -l' listing with
> > '' in the user field". Since the Administrators group is not the
> > current user, this field w
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:49:59PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Yes, it is. What I meant was "files show up in the 'ls -l' listing with
> '' in the user field". Since the Administrators group is not the
> current user, this field won't be set to whatever the default is, will it?
It
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > No problem, I'll rewrite this (after actually looking at the code this
> > time). However, at least on my machine, most of the files, especially in
> > /cygdrive/c, are owned by th
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >I think we never get that right. The problem is that the ls entries
> >only are 8 chars long, not enough to be really informative. Whatever
> >you put in ther
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> No problem, I'll rewrite this (after actually looking at the code this
> >> time). However, at least on my m
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> No problem, I'll rewrite this (after actually looking at the code this
>> time). However, at least on my machine, most of the files, especially in
>> /cygdrive/c
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> No problem, I'll rewrite this (after actually looking at the code this
> time). However, at least on my machine, most of the files, especially in
> /cygdrive/c, are owned by the Administrators group. If it's not in
> /etc/passwd
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:37:16AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > +
> > +If a user or group is not present in /etc/passwd (or
> > +if a group is not present in /etc/group), it will have
> > +a special user/group id of -1 (which would be shown by l
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:37:16AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> +
> +If a user or group is not present in /etc/passwd (or
> +if a group is not present in /etc/group), it will have
> +a special user/group id of -1 (which would be shown by ls
> +as 65535). In releases of Cygwin before 1.3.20, t
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:49:32AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Umm, Corinna, suppose some misguided soul would actually create a user
> > named "mkpasswd" (or a group called "mkgroup")? What then? Perhaps a
> > note in the User Guide's ntsec
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> - char group_name [UNLEN + 1] = "mkgroup";
>>> + char group_name [UNLEN + 1] = "run mkgroup";
>>
>> I didn't commit this change.
>>
>>> + if (myself->uid == UNKNOWN_UID)
>>> + strcpy (group_name, "run mkpasswd"); /* Feedback... */
>>
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:49:32AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Umm, Corinna, suppose some misguided soul would actually create a user
> named "mkpasswd" (or a group called "mkgroup")? What then? Perhaps a
> note in the User Guide's ntsec section is in order? Or an FAQ?
Feel free to write
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > 2003-02-05 Pierre Humblet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > * security.h: Introduce names UNKNOWN_UID and UNKNOWN_GID and delete
> > declaration of is_grp_member.
> > * uinf
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 2003-02-05 Pierre Humblet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * security.h: Introduce names UNKNOWN_UID and UNKNOWN_GID and delete
> declaration of is_grp_member.
> * uinfo.cc (internal_getlogin): Use UNKNOWN_GID.
>
At 01:30 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I think that initial feedback is a *great* idea but if cygcheck can
>provide some kind of information that would allow diagnosing a
>problem, that would be useful, too.
>
>Maybe it could just dump selected fields from /etc/passwd and
>/etc/grou
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:34:03PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 05:52 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>Actually I would prefer that over this extra check, changing the
>>group name to "use mkpasswd".
>
>I had some hesitations too. For a while I considered changing the
>user na
At 12:31 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Pierre,
>
>IMHO, "No entry" is a better name for such a situation ([ug]id==-1). It
>could then be documented in the FAQ. Just my 2ยข...
Igor,
That's something else. ls -l print 65535 when the sid cannot be mapped
to a uid/gid, which is NEVER
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> The question of "Why is my HOME C:\ " could also be handled in
>> /etc/profile. I was thinking of putting something like this in it:
>> echo "Hello this is /etc/profile"
>> echo "You are a new user and I will verify your configuration".
>> echo "Del
At 05:52 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>Actually I would prefer that over this extra check, changing the
>group name to "use mkpasswd".
I had some hesitations too. For a while I considered changing the
user name itself, but that would cause side effects.
Changing the group name does
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> At 11:48 AM 2/5/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >Pierre or Corinna,
> >Have either of you considered adding code to cygcheck to check for more
> >common ntsec "problems"? At the very least, something along the lines
> >of "your username isn't
At 11:48 AM 2/5/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Pierre or Corinna,
>Have either of you considered adding code to cygcheck to check for more
>common ntsec "problems"? At the very least, something along the lines
>of "your username isn't in /etc/passwd" seems like it would be
>worthwhile.
Ch
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:48:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Pierre or Corinna,
> Have either of you considered adding code to cygcheck to check for more
> common ntsec "problems"? At the very least, something along the lines
> of "your username isn't in /etc/passwd" seems like it would b
Pierre or Corinna,
Have either of you considered adding code to cygcheck to check for more
common ntsec "problems"? At the very least, something along the lines
of "your username isn't in /etc/passwd" seems like it would be
worthwhile.
I really would be thrilled if someone was interested in addin
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