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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:10:43 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion to make cygserver's unknown uid/gid messages more informative
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On 12/20/2012 10:52 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could you please consider adding a bit more information to these two
> cygserver messages to help identify the offending user or group,
> for which they get issued:
>
> cygserver: WARNING: User not found in /etc/passwd! Using uid -1!
> cygserver: WARNING: Group not found in /etc/group! Using gid -1!
>
> Our app works very closely with the server making a huge amount of
> requests, so if/when the things get out of control, we get tons of
> these messages, yet none of them are very useful.

Seems like a reasonable request, at least at the 30,000 foot view of things.
I'm sure it's something that will be considered.  I expect if someone
wants to create a patch to do this, that will receive quick
consideration. :-)

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Larry

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