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Date: | Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:56:59 +0100 |
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Subject: | Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |
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From: | Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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On Mar 11 02:28, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 14:01, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin > <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote: > > On Mar 5 23:38, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > > Always editing /etc/nsswitch.conf > > > forth and back is not a elegant solution, aside from race conditions > > > with other users on a system > > > > So, here we go again. > > > > - What exactly are you trying to accomplish by enumerating the accounts? > > Maybe you won't actually need it for your task at hand. > > We're trying to do several things, including but not limited to: > - Finding which local groups exist. Part of our customer software > expects that certain groups exist. Unfortunately the group names vary > between installations, and sometimes names are prefixed with site > names. Trying to do all permutations with just getent passwd > $iteration means too many combinations (>= 4000000). So just > enumerating all local groups with getent group would be the way to go. Then just change /etc/nsswitch.conf to enumerate "local" as well and be done with it. You can even go so far as to use the Windows enumerator, i.e., $ net localgroup and than script it to use its output as input to getent group for only the groups you really need info for. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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