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From: "Peter Kabal" <kabal AT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
To: <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: password routine (e.g. getpwnam) behavior: bug or feature
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:12:15 -0400
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Cygwin 1.1.2 under Windows 2000

Calling getpwnam("xxx") where "xxx" is a non-existent user returns the
password structure for user "administrator".  I would have expected it
to return a NULL structure indicating that the user does not exist in
the password file.

Is the cited behavior a bug or a feature?

Peter Kabal     Kabal AT ECE DOT McGill DOT CA (514) 398-7130
Electrical & Computer Engineering   (514) 398-4470 (FAX)
McGill University
3480 University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada  H3A 2A7


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