X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=CWi1j/gP8jmX5JkK jUxA8wQ4hZb7FpWShbZeBkVo6hjz5JTu8525lMYDfYLgVaS7uOvQVdaffs8vgAAb CGexaWcsLf0VX1cQNQBwuWqj3MTxwX+r2Tc1HB9sQs4N8G5LkSayC2TVcLtuZ5Om rD6kLb73D6x+58buZuyRxE1CBNc= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=eEj6WL3aEtspEZK4FDLXVe hEFkA=; b=LgMzIcgseITfeCeV7cI1ZTT20eQkFfv/lgHoFrSd80d79nhqrJjdEJ PiONyEurrvTOKZaUZbvGbTclHdwxD3Tbv90b6MbRNkjqM/Kj+w9PLH8aepe+lmIb BGmKvOiNbRVNDiFIV/kskGZ8ECAIy+bPYXcLMPJIFb4+WBzhjCgsY= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,PLING_QUERY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit, surprise X-HELO: mail-io0-f180.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WqdoF2Nxjo4ZeXTVztlMlom14Dim4Au3FGBob3w5JWQ=; b=fazFQ5OuHTifXPuZtB29mzSwxakJYWguvFRKZxs8Ki0MJWhBDV5ZcmXEB05NWxsb7b MwbiHaka+SNkrHol3PeiMNCJ/SGs7KZyP0oySs5wqXkKaS50NGX/ssOosKM1W9bdvXUs gR4xR2x9ieEVRsGg92JNO07iseiNl5BlAPOOHa5tuv5LaogsHThHV3zOvPjyjOlsJvCc dNy1zMu9KjcV/q/QIeD5m0C3uxWqSNilnAI5nl5SY8mnD3dQYk568VaAo0PdqbowblKq I1W1fG9vJIEDfbXjoz8XT1MLpSQ5o0FDNQNNDmHq1YmhKmS2nHPegD0Q8DNU/fj5Uc3d o13A== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcCj985enWtR3aHpHme/2vi9cgCYAhnT245goWtrwpLz7MvVgvaf nUO3MaFgML/uiHii X-Received: by 10.107.50.140 with SMTP id y134mr22267611ioy.196.1496242779248; Wed, 31 May 2017 07:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? SURPRISE! To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <37b863f6-ce5c-ef13-569f-8044fe485075@gmail.com> <20e2702ca3837f5d54c558f8e786c717@xs4all.nl> <262615c8cf6e134cedf97b0280c4a68f@smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net> <592E1C49.6020202@cygwin.com> <38be07babbfc69d5ccea67afe6f92794@smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net> <28f7eeae-ed40-9837-53bc-d2d6a33ad5a7@gmail.com> <353243559c68bf1200675e2dc13c3d93@smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 10:59:38 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <353243559c68bf1200675e2dc13c3d93@smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 5/31/2017 10:16 AM, Houder wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2017 09:27:02, cyg Simple wrote: > > [snip] >> All of this talk of /etc/passwd leads me to point you to >> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html. > > cyg, > > Do you want me to study that text a second, third, fourth or Xth time ...? > Yes, especially section https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping where it explains that /etc/passwd and /etc/group are now deprecated and it's use is for backward compatibility and that you should be using /etc/nsswitch.conf[1] instead. Have you attempted this? [1] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple