Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:47:56 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Latest Install - Domain account - File permisssions Message-ID: <20010917154756.A24304@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010917181241.B10081@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BA62542.4060807@likai.net> <20010917184002.E10081@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BA629AC.5030201@likai.net> <20010917190518.G10081@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BA65273.7010002@likai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BA65273.7010002@likai.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:43:47PM -0400, Li-Kai Liu wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>actually, i am using ntsec. does ntsec have impact on what mkpasswd or >>>mkgroup is outputting? >>> >> >>Nope. It can't. ntsec needs the passwd file which mkpasswd >>produces. It's a chicken-egg problem. >> >>Corinna >> >i thought so ... is there a way to make mkpasswd generate correct group >id output? > >or else, i've thought of writing a small program that gracefully >combines current cygwin setting (/etc/passwd, /etc/group) and NT setting >(mkpasswd, mkgroup). everytime i change a user on NT requires me to >first generate mkpasswd over existing /etc/passwd, potentially losing >info on user shell selection, and lose the past manual corrections on >group id. the small program will take care of automatically correcting >group id in mkpasswd output and importing shell selection from previous >/etc/passwd. do you think there is necessity in doing this? I think that you should add this capability to mkpasswd and mkgroup if it is important. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/