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 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:01:15 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: security.cc: bug report, question and suggestion Message-ID: <20020121170115.N11608@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <3.0.5.32.20020120225521.007e14b0@pop.ne.mediaone.net> <3C4C3662.EBC091A@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C4C3662.EBC091A@ieee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:40:18AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > "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. Would you mind to track that down further. I'd suspect something's wrong in Cygwin, probably in internal_getlogin() ?!? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/