X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT 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:date:from:reply-to:message-id:to:subject :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=FFE9hqAuC9UGcBRi HfMcRNHfxeJup1Rp1HgNsblQQ/HUtcNKKzb1r4yvT941FEAvp7SlGsuHgH/KGDOR qdS6Q0TkOu2mT2ntiDxz9N1koR8u6udPX4YlQXH7CP/FcU8nm5vkhmLHh0CBIsvM GqVBzJXrTaCm8Zm94We/3yabTXM= 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:date:from:reply-to:message-id:to:subject :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=o1BaR0kG+o+s/4kyk08o9Q GWy40=; b=JbpnLOsKx819wuArud2FhEQ6BGL9eOLmugCUvYNoNicpLeKhC3HxT8 CGnHqeQB8nDGCa1odmLYaEkjaqbaUXWqeQ5a9bbcW8jkRDpvlF4Q/m65CQGMAv26 k7sg1zjGAU2l63IYk2wuv9ydC4JGbMYlSwe0GBwAbUisZprgJ2X8M= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtpback.ht-systems.ru Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:49:18 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <449939081.20140207164918@mtu-net.ru> To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?) In-Reply-To: <20140207094917.GN2821@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <52F339CA DOT 5070305 AT gmail DOT com> <20140206090117 DOT GD2821 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <52F361C5 DOT 3000807 AT gmail DOT com> <20140206141321 DOT GI2821 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <52F40208 DOT 5030901 AT etr-usa DOT com> <20140207094917 DOT GN2821 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> In some of these systems, you can edit /etc/foo and run a command to >> manually sync that content back to the "real" user info DB. (e.g. >> the BSDs) In others, direct edits to these files are ignored, but >> the OS syncs a subset of changes to the user info DB to these files, >> for the benefit of getpwent() and friends. (e.g. Mac OS X.) > That won't make much sense on Cygwin. The idea is to use the existing > OS tools to maintain the user/group databases in the first place. > Having said that, it would, of course, be possible to implement Cygwin > command line tools along the lines of useradd/usermod/groupdel. For AD, > they would just have to use LDAP, as Cygwin will do to read the account > info. It's pretty simple, as far as you view LDAP as simple, LDAP IS simple. It's a shame it is so little known outside specific circles. > However, I found that one functionality has to go completely. It will > not be possible anymore to ssh into your machine and add yourself to > arbitrary groups by adding your user name to groups in /etc/group. This > is just not feasible anymore. Erm. I call it a security improvement. To put it mildly. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 07.02.2014, <16:43> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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