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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2014 21:06:35 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.6
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On Nov  6 20:51, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Nov  6 19:34, Christian Franke wrote:
> >>But why does
> >>   mkpasswd -l (no host) -- adds a prefix
> >>   mkpasswd -l THISHOST -- does not add a prefix
> >>when the machine is in a domain? Not consistent, IMO.
> >That's right.  The reason is that the machine name is treated as a
> >foreign machine.  In theory, this should always generate names
> >with prefixed machine name, but this is an entirely different
> >code path in mkpasswd/mkgroup.  I guess this should be fixed.
> >
> >I wouldn't be unhappy about help...
>=20
> I would only fix it back to the old behaviour (mkpasswd -l =3D no prefix),
> sorry :-)
>=20
> At my real job we run several build & test machines which are members of a
> domain but use various local test user accounts (with no collision with
> domain users due to name space rules). Loosing the ability to use
> prefix-less local user names would break various existing test scripts
> (which are also used on Linux).
>=20
> Generated emails would have a from address with HOST+USER name part which
> might give interesting results if the mail system somehow interprets the
> NAME+EXTENSION address syntax...
>=20
> So there are use cases where prefix-less local user names are needed. This
> should be still supported, e.g. by mkpasswd -l, IMO.

But then... why not keep mkpasswd -L and use that instead?

> >>But PLEASE keep the ability to create local users/groups without a pref=
ix.
> >>Otherwise useful configuration defaults (mail_owner=3Dpostfix, ...) wou=
ld be
> >>no longer useful because config files must be tweaked for each host
> >>(mail_owner=3DHOST+postfix, ...) for the sole purpose of[1]. Some of su=
ch
> >>technical users (sshd?) might also be hard coded or a config parser mig=
ht
> >>not like the HOST+USER syntax.
> >And how's that supposed to work?  Even if we introduce a way in
> >/etc/nsswitch.conf to generate usernames differently, it doesn't really
> >help.  Your config file should be able to work with default settings
> >and not force the admin to use specific settings in nsswitch.conf.
>=20
> The 'PLEASE keep ...' was only related to the new csih script. It should =
be
> able to optionally put prefix-less local usernames to /etc/passwd.

PTC?  As I wrote, I hope I have something ready next week, but the
csih heler script is pretty complicated.  I never expected having to
maintain it :(


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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