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:reply-to:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=ooluG74d8y6mQabU 2RvqZSel0UV/9Jl81Z5+ArxLPnV4bLUiSJkGVqA/RFGHifqlXyTIk3KAcBAIsDY6 0BLe7SW2EbYFBOR0TeplaOsWnRP6DSm85tmWvy51/XgkE5kXOZYRvIiUYqYsldb8 NSr4Q1R8OkcUVKORxJTrbybgYT4= 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:reply-to:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=j07/H9uWJn/W3Wnk8wwjjG 94ZLQ=; b=Qibk6LqKFGRCA7T/rcN9bxbZIfNt827Np8Fjnjk/6xTwzzB7u3GaHK dtUUmO8vCyR0VRndVDpBvT/GwiydIq7QGEtnYIx+vu1TXZGGf5V1NSQBjqxjwYC2 7XzjXaLxF8mcyjXHCyv9Ell4MYV+jQ5wK0LjzMkt4/6kJlNFjTlpU= 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-HELO: localhost.localdomain Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:07:44 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: getent-2.18.90-3 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Hi folks, I just uploaded getent-2.18.90-3. getent is a Glibc tool which allows to fetch host, passwd, group, protocol, and service information via a simple tool. The -3 version introduces the ability to ask for passwd and group entries via Windows username/groupname, using the "U-" prefix as in Cygwin's pw_gecos field: $ getent passwd U-BUILTIN\\Administrator Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: You can skip the domain name. In this case getent relies on the default account name resolution order of the underlying LookupAccountName(*) function $ getent passwd U-Administrator Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: This release also fixes the problem that under current versions of Cygwin an entry for the user/group name "????????" is printed when enumerating user or group accounts. ===================================================================== IMPORTANT (not only) FOR CYGWIN PACKAGE MAINTAINERS ===================================================================== The most important aspect for Cygwin for the near future is this: With the new passwd/group code just in testing (see https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html for lots and lots of information), tools and scripts must not rely anymore on being able to grep user and group information from /etc/passwd and /etc/group! The new way to read passwd and group information from, for instance, service installation helper scripts, is to use the getent tool for this purpose. I'd like to urge all maintainers which provide such scripts to look into their packages and fix them to use the getent tool, rather than grep'ing /etc/passwd and /etc/group directly. ===================================================================== (*) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379159%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Have fun, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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