Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:14:58 -0400
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de>
Cc: corinna AT vinschen DOT de, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: ntsec patch description (1st try)
Message-ID: <19990527121458.A918@cygnus.com>
References: <199905271450 DOT QAA03892 AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i
In-Reply-To: <199905271450.QAA03892@fokus.gmd.de>; from Joerg Schilling on Thu, May 27, 1999 at 04:50:50PM +0200

On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 04:50:50PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>From cygwin-developers-return-304-schilling=fokus DOT gmd DOT de AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Thu May 27 02:50:25 1999
>
>>To give help for creating correct passwd and group files, look at
>>the following examples, that are parts of my files. With the exception
>>of my personal user entry, all entries are well known entries. For
>>better understanding, the names are translated to english NT version:
>
>>/etc/passwd
>>===========
>>everyone:*:0:0:::
>>system:*:18:18:::
>>administrator::500:544::/home/root:/bin/bash
>>guest:*:501:546:::
>>administrators:*:544:544::/home/root:
>>corinna::1000:547:Corinna Vinschen:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
>
>>/etc/group
>>==========
>>everyone::0:
>>system::18:
>>none::513:
>>administrators::544:
>>users::545:
>>guests::546:
>>powerusers::547:
>
>Nice idea. If this would be part of Cygwin, 'star' would allow you to write
>to a remote tape drive on a UNIX server. I already tested this some weeks ago.

What's the "nice idea" here?  I'm missing something.  /etc/passwd and /etc/group
are already part of cygwin and Corinna's changes are in the latest snapshots.

-chris