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Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration


Corinna Vinschen writes:
> * cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching.
>
>   All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd
>   and group entries from cygserver.  While this is probably a bit
>   slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more information
>   is present and later started processes will get the information
>   with all due speed.

Does this mean there is no caching without cygserver running?

> * Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.

This one always seemed a bit odd to me.  The only use I could think up
is if your Windows username contains non-ASCII or spaces and you'd want
to avoid dealing with that within Cygwin.

> * db_separator in /etc/nsswitch.conf

I can't see a pressing need for configurable separators here.  Domain
users are probably already accustomed to seeing Domain\User, so that'd
be a natural default unless somebody had a pretty good reason for
something different.


Regards,
Achim.
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