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Date:	Thu, 08 May 2014 20:12:28 -0400
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On 5/8/2014 7:17 PM, Robert Pendell wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On May  7 16:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On May  7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> And here's a problem which I'm not sure how to solve at all:
>>>>>
>>>>> When calling the latest mkpasswd, the primary group of the local
>>>>> user account backing the Microsoft Account will *still* be "None".
>>>>>
>>>>> The reason is that the local account is just the same old account
>>>>> as usual.  Its default primary group *is* "None".
>>>>>
>>>>> Only when logging in via the Micosoft Account email address, the
>>>>> user token will not reflect what's stored in the local SAM, but
>>>>> will have been changed by the OS as outlined in this thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, when a user decides to create a passwd file rather than using
>>>>> the SAM/DB code in Cygwin, the information generated by mkpasswd
>>>>> will not match the user token, and the primary group stored in
>>>>> /etc/passwd will not even be available at all in the user token.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not the faintest idea how to workaround this schizophrenia.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Corinna
>>>>>
>>>> Oh wow. It took me two reads of this to understand it. Caffeine is
>>>> finally kicking in, I guess. Unless you just want to hard code the
>>>> primary group that mkpasswd generates to "Users" for any account
>>>> that it would tend to want to set as "None". That would be some
>>>> smelly code though.
>>>
>>> Hmm, but it might fix a couple of problems.  If we go ahead and
>>> always convert the "None" primary group to "Users", we'd have a
>>> pretty stable state, which works nicely for local accounts,
>>> independently of habving logged in as normal account or as Microsoft
>>> Account.  This might be the easiest workaound, in fact.
>>
>> I created a new snapshot on http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which
>> introduces the following behaviour, which is a bit less intrusive:
>>
>> If a local account is connected to a Microsoft Account, the primary
>> group defaults to "Users".  If it's a normal local accout it defaults
>> to "None", as usual.  This also covers mkpasswd from the snapshot.
>>
>> This does not work if you continue to use an already existing
>> /etc/passwd file.  I have no good solution for this sccenario, other
>> than a (yet to be written) FAQ entry.
>>
>> Hope that helps nevertheless.
>>
>>
>> Corinna
>>
>
> Thanks for all the effort you have put forth on this issue Corinna.  I
> checked the snapshot today and found the behavior to be matching what
> you described.  An expected side effect right now is that old files
> still have the group SID set to the user SID as well as all the other
> installed files placed by the OS however there isn't much we can do
> there beyond changing the group manually for the files.
>
> On that note I used the larger inst package (to get updates to
> mkpasswd and the like) and noticed that there is a /usr/lib and
> /usr/bin folder with the updated files however cygwin mounts /lib and
> /bin on top of the respective folders making any files installed there
> inaccessible in a normal cygwin run.

This doesn't happen if you install the snapshot by the method suggested 
in the FAQ:

   http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.snapshots

Ken

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