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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:20:19 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Testers needed:  New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> Also, more radically, if we drop the functionality to define another
> group name for a group, we could drop the requirement to open an LDAP
> connection to fetch group information to the DC entirely(*).  This would
> only affect domain groups, local groups could still have different
> names.  But I'm already wondering for a couple of days if having a
> Cygwin group name different from the Windows group name is really
> necessary at all.

If you ask me, it not only unnecessary, but potentially confusing, if not
dangerous.
Given that you've presumable fixed the group name mangling on locale changes,
I think all the necessity for this functionality is now gone.

> I added this years ago for fun, but there's no
> serious reason I can think of which would require to keep up with this.

> (*) Assuming the group info is cached in the local LSA, which is
>     pretty likely for the groups of the current user.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 26.02.2014, <02:17>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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