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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 22:37:16 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.7
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On Nov  6 16:08, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Corinna Vinschen=20
> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 13:51
> >=20
> > On Nov  6 13:38, Kelley Cook wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > Hi Cygwin friends and users,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I just released a 7th TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin
> > > > release, 1.7.33-0.7.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I discovered that /usr/bin/cron-config which is part of the cron
> > > package will need to be updated as it attempts to parse /etc/group .
> >=20
> > Right, it should use getent instead.  Pierre?
>=20=20
> Right, and ditto for exim config and postinstall
> How much time do I have?
>=20
> Now cron-config checks if a username appears multiple times in passwd.
> Typically one instance is a domain id and the other one is a local id.
> That causes havoc with cron
> It happens fairly frequently; there was even such a "bug report" recently.
>=20
> How does getent handle that case? Is it detectable from a config file?

Cygwin will only see the first one of these user names when reading from
passwd, same for getent (or cron).  I don't think config scripts have to
handle every configuration error.  On systems not using passwd and group
files, this problem wouldn't occur for instance.


Corinna

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