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Re: Avoiding /etc/passwd and /etc/group scans
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Another idea is to isolate all of your changes using ifdefs and I can
> just turn on the ifdef in the normal snapshot process. Then you wouldn't
> have to maintain a separate branch.
That gets ugly quickly. I'd rather have a separate branch.
I would touch at most 4 or 5 files.
> >I just looked at passwd-grp.sh.done (July 28)
Oops. There is also a more recent passwd-grp.bat. I just deleted
my passwd file and ran setup. It only gave the -l switch although
I am a domain user.
I have both a domain account and a local account with the same names.
When I start cygwin as a domain user it incorrectly picks up my local
account uid. However things (e.g. chmod) behave correctly with my recent
patch.
> Will it potentially cause a delay if we use the -d switch?
Yes, e.g. if the domain user runs disconnected from the PDC.
It could also take long in large domains. Giving the -d -u switches
would help there.
> The same person who chided me was indicating that setup.exe was somehow
> creating files that were incorrect or that cygwin was unable to execute
> files with .exe extensions. I don't really understand what's going on.
The "incorrect" may be from the absent -d
I don't understand the non executable .ex, although an "ls -l" that
does not show the x is understandable.
> Does it make sense that someone would have to properly generate
> /etc/passwd and also turn off ntsec in order for things to work again?
There is a possibility in a multi domain environment that a user will deal
with files owned by a sid that does not appear in the output of a plain
mkpasswd -d. One would have to do mkpasswd -d specific-domains to have
correct display in "ls -l" and to chmod such a file (that's one thing I
know how to make work without running multiple mkpasswd).
Turning off ntsec is then an easy way out.
Pierre