X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:43:00 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [1.7] mkpasswd and mkgroup ignore user and group names with 	national   characters
Message-ID: <20090515094300.GH21324@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <e2480c70905150043p4c9d786dn825f853279c05752 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <e2480c70905150043p4c9d786dn825f853279c05752@mail.gmail.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20)
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On May 15 11:43, Alexey Borzenkov wrote:
> I'm in a domain at work and previously used mkpasswd -d and mkgroup -d
> to populate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Unfortunately, we mostly
> use Russian versions of Windows (especially on servers) here and most
> built-in user and group names (like Administrator, Domain Users, etc.)
> are localized. With cygwin 1.5 these names were successfully exported
> by mkpasswd/mkgroup, however with cygwin 1.7 all such usernames are
> silently ignored and don't appear in the output.
> 
> Since my primary group is "Domain Users" every time I execute
> cygwin.bat I see this:
> 
>     Your group is currently "mkgroup".  This indicates that neither
>     your gid nor your pgsid (primary group associated with your SID)
>     is in /etc/group.
> 
>     The /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt.
>     See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
> 
>     mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
>     mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
> 
>     Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
> 
> Is it some bug or was it a design decision?

It's missing setlcoale calls in the first place.  I'm going to fix that.


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/