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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 07:33:45 +0100
From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: getent-2.18.90-3
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I just uploaded getent-2.18.90-3.
>
> getent is a Glibc tool which allows to fetch host, passwd, group,
> protocol, and service information via a simple tool.
>
> The -3 version introduces the ability to ask for passwd and group
> entries via Windows username/groupname, using the "U-" prefix as
> in Cygwin's pw_gecos field:
>
>    $ getent passwd U-BUILTIN\\Administrator
>    Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>
> You can skip the domain name.  In this case getent relies on the
> default account name resolution order of the underlying LookupAccountName(*)
> function
>
>    $ getent passwd U-Administrator
>    Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::

Looks good.

What is the future way to map cygwin group names to windows group names? 
Unlike struct passwd, the windows name does not appear in struct group.

"getent wingroup CYGGROUP" with some help of a new cygwin_internal function?

Christian


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