Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 28 22:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 28 21:53, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> > 2014-02-28 18:14 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen:
> > > I made some tests myself today, while debugging Frank's problem.  If I
> > 
> > I updated to the snapshot of today (28th) and now the message is not
> > shown anymore.
> > Thanks for the fix.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> > I have yet another observation. When I am not connected with VPN it
> > takes a while (don't know how to time exactly, around 3 seconds) after
> > I double click the shortcut for mintty to show up. When connect it
> > shows up almost instantly. Tested 24th, 27th and 28th snapshots and
> > see the problem with all of them.
> 
> That's not really a problem but a case of "it is as it is".  To get the
> user and group info, Cygwin has to contact the DC and/or GC and then
> runs into a timeout.  Right now, the LDAP timeout is set to 3 seconds.
> I don't know yet if it's such a bright idea to lower this timeout value.

Btw., if the timeout is unbearable, it might be an interesting idea
to switch on reading passwd and group info from the files when the
VPN is not available.

The last snapshots contain a new version of the mkpasswd and mkgroup
tools which produce passwd and group entries with the same values
(especially uid and gid values!) as the "db" setting in Cygwin does.

The idea is that files and db don't contradict each other by default,
rather they provide the same values.  Therefore it might be a nice
addition to use the files in offline mode.


Corinna

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