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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:15:58 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration
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On Apr 10 21:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote:
> > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
> > >
> > >   This is a really fat problem.
> >=20
> > Who needs this functionality?
>=20
> I don't remember, but some user on this list wrote in February about how
> he uses this for... something.  Something to do with logging in to other
> machines or so.
>=20
> > Is it some legacy of passwd(5) compatibility, such as the wish to
> > have colons in Windows login names?
>=20
> No, it's just some legacy of how we allow this for /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group.  See, for instance entries like
>=20
>   root:S-1-5-21-544:0:
>=20
> to fake a root group backed by the administrators group.  It=20
> seemed like a good idea at the time (2000 or so) and this would
> not be possible anymore.  But, in fact, I was trying to make sure
> all the time that our applications don't rely on this.  And if we
> actually have an application which relies on this, it's a bug.
>=20
> > Does the move to AD/SAM eliminate the original need, so that you
> > actually have *two* reasons to stop paying the runtime expense?
>=20
> I never had this need.  To me it was just a funny extension.  But maybe
> other users are using this, so I'm a bit unlucky now that I invented it
> in the first place.

s/unlucky/unhappy/


Corinna

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