Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C4C3662.EBC091A@ieee.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:40:18 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: security.cc: bug report, question and suggestion References: <3.0.5.32.20020120225521.007e14b0@pop.ne.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Corinna Vinschen" wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:46:03PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > Entry in passwd (note Cygwin name != Windows name) > > exim:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:1005:daemon,U-PHumblet\Mail,S-1-5-21-21273915 > > 03-1594901184-99485923-1002:/h > > ome/Mail:/bin/bash > > > > /> cygrunsrv -I test -u mail -e CYGWIN=ntsec -p /a.exe > > Enter password of user `.\mail': > > Reenter, please: > > /> cygrunsrv -S test > > /> head /var/log/test.log > > CYGWIN = ntsec USERNAME = UNDEF UID = 500 GID = 513 PID = 619 <==INCORRECT UID/GID > > Operator error. -u expects the Cygwin user name, not the Windows > user name (it's a Cygwin application...). The wrong UID is caused > by your aforementioned observation that the getpwuid/getgrgid > functions always return a default value :-( Corinna, I just checked on NT. cygrunsrv accepts Cygwin and Windows user names equally well and produces an incorrect UID if they differ. Pierre -- 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/