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:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=s1ghngZ/kvJvhaifwdcPhtOJ/cBv/AdRcT2kZIB+9l5 FgCcZWqWzppzYzZekUq9PgymdI1SeeN3KId3qqzXyGFn4TTtMHY/8shl2+jUovAG dG1HM3XjVtsDD4yMYPobhnxYOP3RqDxRzPejQW9DFdvfoHkkW3HUUpURnO74O9bg = 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:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=zj6LZ8yG3Cw49N+NF+ATenLPVJw=; b=q5LD/cbVn4Z8nu47C kmL7IZ3TFxRfH3SFFQ/fgS/ip3VWOsB1cPVM2NCKyO7/ekMymPKAjc64XgpyUBt8 ydhtH9INlByJj5zJzMbzVqftefDM9Onip2cWf7vbbhK+rWxTrGFPtPqKvAEejL45 nJFdy6VZeSEuQgQAfawcYO/+Xw= 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=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Message-ID: <5346E623.5000406@etr-usa.com> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:42:43 -0600 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration References: <20140410145323 DOT GB2437 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20140410145323.GB2437@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > * Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. > > This is a really fat problem. Who needs this functionality? Is it some legacy of passwd(5) compatibility, such as the wish to have colons in Windows login names? Does the move to AD/SAM eliminate the original need, so that you actually have *two* reasons to stop paying the runtime expense? -- 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