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From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
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Subject: RE: problems with current cvs release
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:44:35 +0200
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> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:47:40PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > > Ok, I found the following in the strace:
> > >
> > >   178  134631 [main] bzip2 948 alloc_sd: no /etc/passwd entry for 1002
> > >
> > > 1002 is the uid.  Is that true?  Could you add an /etc/passwd entry?
> >
> > Yes, than bzip works, but I'm wondering because the users are in
> the same group
>
> Huh?  What has the group to do with the uid?

I meaned the unix group

> Ntsec needs passwd entries for users and especially the SID in this
> file to operate correctly.
> Why are the SIDs missing?  Are you actually working under the administrators
account?

No

> Did you rename it on your system or did you only rename it in /etc/passwd?

The second

> If so, the entry should better look like this:
>
> habacker::500:513:U-administrator,S-1-5-21-X-Y-Z-500:/home/habacker:/bin/bash
>
I've tried some month ago and got several access errors , so I figured out
Thanks

> Did you read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html ?

Yes, I have read it for about a half year and then have tried some settings and
the used settings works, but it seems I have to read it again to refresh the
content. :-)
>
> > services:This_field_is_not_used_by_cygwin_on_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:CYGWIN
> > Dienste:/home/services:/bin/bash
> > auser::1002:513::/home/auser:/bin/bash
> > habacker::500:513::/home/habacker:/bin/bash
> > SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> > Jeder:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> > Administratoren:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> >
> > That means, that for operations on files, an entry for any possible
> user must be added, regardless of the group. Is this true ?
>
> When using ntsec, yes.  This should have been the case already with
> earlier releases of Cygwin.  In 1.3.11 it just got stricter.
>
Thats the problem, because before 1.3.11 my configuration it worked for about a
year.

Corinna, thanks for your hints. This helped me to understand more this complex
topic.

Ralf



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