passwd edited /etc/passwd patch
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Thu Jun 13 09:07:00 GMT 2002
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:18:15PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> + /* Try getting a Win32 username in case the user edited /etc/passwd */
> + if (ret == NERR_UserNotFound)
> + {
> + if ((pw = getpwnam (user)))
> + cygwin_internal (CW_EXTRACT_DOMAIN_AND_USER, pw, domain, (char *) user);
Thanks for the patch but, hmm, I think I'd prefer to look always for
the Cygwin username first.
It's unlikely and probably just an academic case but you could have
the Cygwin username user_a for the windows user user_b and vice versa.
Corinna
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