Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/05/03/10:33:00
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Boffin, Stephane (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE) wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX]
> Sent: 3 mai 2007 10:18
> To: Boffin, Stephane (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE)
> Cc: cygwin AT XXXXXX DOT XXX
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
> Subject: Re: Cygwin username
>
> > On Thu, 3 May 2007, Boffin, Stephane (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE) wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > When you log into cygwin using a shell the username used is the
> > > windows user name. I have a setup where I would like 10 users from
> > > 10 diffrent PC to have one username and 10 other using 10 other pc
> > > have an other.
> > >
> > > This is because I only want to manage 2 user name in the passwd file.
> > >
> > > Is this possible ?
> > > And if yes how do I do that
> >
> > I don't believe it's possible. First off, entries in /etc/passwd
> > contain an SID that identifies the associated Windows user, so you'd
> > need to have one entry per Windows user anyway, or they will be
> > unrecognized by Cygwin.
> >
> > You can have multiple entries in /etc/passwd with the same username, but
> > when Cygwin looks up a username, it stops at the first one, so anyone
> > trying to log in with that username will be treated as the first
> > matching user (and will need to enter the password for that user).
> >
> > On the other hand, you can use the mkpasswd tool to manage your
> > /etc/passwd file instead of doing it by hand.
> > Igor
>
> I do not want to use the mkpasswd because I have 500 user on the network
> and only 6 - 10 will be using Cygwin.
Then take a look at the "-u" option to mkpasswd, and write a script to
only grab the users you want. Similarly for mkgroup (with "-g").
> I tried to put only on entry in the /etc/passwd and cygwin uses this
> user name but I do not know if this is a bug or a feature.
> I would of expected cygwin to send a authentication error ...???
Huh? You'll need to expand on this. What do you mean by "cygwin uses
this user name"?
Igor
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