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Date:	Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:52:02 +0400
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin - test results and observations
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> > But this is a problem not different from Linux.  If you have a username
>> > with non-ASCII chars, it will use *some* encoding in the passwd DB,
>> > usually UTF-8 these days.  If you then change the codeset in your
>> > application, you will still get your username in UTF-8.  It won't be
>> > changed on the fly, just because your application calls setlocale.
>> 
>> I understand it (mostly), but there's actually two issues, not one.
>> One issue is the display part, where names are output for user consumption.
>> Another can be observed in, i.e., rsync, and file access in general (remember
>> the discussion about accessing long directory names in unicode).
>> Changing LANG variable DO matter for the latter, and you may only hope that
>> whatever is output in the former case is actually printable (thank God, most
>> of the time it actually is, in case of UTF-8).
>> It is getting even more complicated, when you consider the fact, that in
>> Windows you have 2 different single-byte encodings, so-called ANSI (for GUI
>> applications) and OEM (for console). And alot of stuff making assumptions
>> without consulting with current status of things.
>> As convoluted the problem is, I think, we need some sort of solution, or at
>> the very least - documentation.

> Sorry, I can't provide an easy solution, and afaik this is documented.

I don't know, how it did not hit my head earlier, but now that I think about
it...
The fact `ls' does not print correct group names, but correctly translate
dates... eww, wait. There's something bad happens under the hood.

Please check this image: http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/43/jn7n.png
LANG is set (pre-set, before Cygwin tree start) to ru_RU.UTF-8 for mintty and
ru_RU.CP866 for console.
As you can see, existing group (i.e. - "Administrators") is properly
translated to chosen locale, which is not the case for group "Отсутствует".

The SID of the group "DAEMON2\Отсутствует" is S-1-5-21-1801674531-1644491937-1606980848-513

Cygwin show it as
-rwxr-xr-x    1 197612 197121    45597 мар 22  2013 xargs.exe

which matching your description for "Accounts from the local machine's user DB
(SAM)" (0x30000+513 =197121) (and yes, the leading part of the SID is matching
the one of the other users on this system), but the group is missing from
`wmic GROUP LIST' output. I presume, it was deleted at one point, or it is
remnants of the previous OS installation, transferred over with the disk to
this system. Either case explains the name of the group - "Missing" or
"Nonexistent". Means, it's name does not exist in current SAM database.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 14.02.2014, <21:19>

Sorry for my terrible english...

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