Mail Archives: cygwin/2014/11/11/01:39:28
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 10 20:21, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Nov 7 21:51, Christian Franke wrote:
>>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>>> In theory there should be only one option -l [machine], which prints the
>>>>>>> local accounts of the current machine unprefixed (standalone machine) or
>>>>>>> prefixed (domain machine), and always prefixed for a foreign machine.
>>>>>>> The -L option can just go away.
>>>>>> I disgree.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why not keep the old behavior of -l/-L for user names of current machine for
>>>>>> those uses cases which rely on it?
>>>>> You are always free to change the passwd/group files manually:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ mkpasswd -l | sed -e 's/^[^:]*+//' > /etc/passwd
>>>> Of course, and it is good that this is still possible. But this would
>>>> require that all existing scripts relying on old behavior need to be
>>>> changed.
>>>>
>>>> I still don't understand why this backward compatibility break of "mkpasswd
>>>> -l" was mandatory.
>>>>
>>>> Most *-config scripts using "mkpasswd -l -u USER" may need to be changed.
>>> Definitely. The change is inevitable since most scripts using mkpasswd
>>> or mkgroup do so to create entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. But
>>> this doesn't make sense anymore, or if so, only marginally so.
>> OK.
>>
>> What will be the behavior of the predecessor of e.g. the csih function
>> csih_create_unprivileged_user if called with USER without HOST prefix,
>> machine is inside of domain and the user does not exist:
>> - create local windows USER and require the config script to retrieve the
>> actual Cygwin HOST+USER name,
>> - fail and tell the calling config script to retry with HOST+USER instead
>> (if possible),
>> - create local windows USER and create a /etc/passwd entry to support a
>> non-prefixed Cygwin USER in this case,
>> - one of the above, selected by a new option.
> I'm not exactly sure yet. I'm working on it, and I ripped apart the
> functions dealing with this problem by handling the cygwin username and
> the windows username separately. But it's not yet finished. In theory
> you have two cases.
>
> Either the account already exists, then the user should (probably
> (grain/salt)) specify the Cygwin username, which is either prefixed or
> not prefixed, dependent on the DB it will get taken from. The script
> fetches the Windows domain and username from the U-... entry in pw_gecos
> then.
>
> Or the account doesn't exist, then the username is just a name. The
> user account will be created in the local SAM and dependent on the state
> of the machine, AD member or not, will be prefixed or not as Cygwin
> account.
>
> Something like that.
Possibly a two step process:
csih_check_unprivileged_user --allow-prefix $USER
if [ "$csih_unpriv_cygwin_username" != "$USER ]; then
# Cygwin username has prefix
.... inform user, patch configuration file, ...
fu
csih_create_unprivileged_user [ $PASSWORD ]
>
>>>> Local scripts from Cygwin users which use "mkpasswd -l" may need to be
>>>> changed.
>>> They are not supposed to use mkpasswd anymore since they don't need it,
>>> only in very special circumstances.
>> Wouldn't it be better to let mkpasswd -l simply fail with an explanatory
>> error message instead of producing non-backward compatible results? Or at
>> least print a warning to stderr?
> But there still are cases in which using mkpasswd -l may be used. If
> somebody explicitely chooses to use "passwd: files"-only, then the
> mkpasswd tool needs to generate accounts.
>
> Is there any compromise possible which lets mkpasswd generate the
> forward compatible accounts by default? I made the change to mkpasswd
> and mkgroup I outlined last week, but I deliberately didn't check it in
> because I'm still hoping we find a compromise going forward. I
> understand that in your scenario you will have to use /etc/passwd for a
> while longer.
>
> But... how many scripts would you really have to change if mkpasswd
> generates prefixed names?
We could add 'sed' to /etc/passwd generating script, no problem.
The actual test scripts & tools from this use case pass local usernames
from/to non-Cygwin programs and rely on the fact that Cygwin and Windows
username match.
For the long term, have some cyguser, cyggroup tools (similar to
cygpath) which convert the names would be helpful.
> Alternatively, is setting some environment
> variable feasible for tweaking the output of mkpasswd backward
> compatible?
Of course, yes.
Or mkpasswd -l behavior depends on nsswitch.conf setting:
passwd only: Old behavior
passwd, db: New behavior, print warning
db only: fail
Christian
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