X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:03:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: NSS and PAM Message-ID: <20071121140354.GB19750@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1195489105.19922.2.camel@station-1.ad.isillc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1195489105.19922.2.camel@station-1.ad.isillc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Nov 19 10:18, Jerome Haltom wrote: > I was wondering what the potential for providing a NSS and PAM > implementation which used the built in Windows account base by default > would be. > > Basically it would remove manual generation of /etc/passwd > and /etc/group. Apps which queryed for these values would just get the > right things made up on the fly. In my case, this means domain users. > > I'd imagine you would map local users to 'username' and domain users to > 'DOM\username' or some such, which is basically what Winbind ends up > doing on Linux. > > Authentication using PAM would simply remove a lot of issues. And it would generate new issues. You would never be able to use a simple user name for a domain user because there's no mapping from a Cygwin user name to a Windows domain user name. There would be no place to store a Cygwin home directory and the user's shell, except you generate a new file for these mappings. But then, why not just use /etc/passwd. Apart from other problems like having to teach ls to show more than 8 characters of the user name, there's also the problem of porting pam to Cygwin. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/