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Re: /etc/group manual-edits-workaround still reqd in 1.7?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:18:31 +0200
- Subject: Re: /etc/group manual-edits-workaround still reqd in 1.7?
- References: <200807261412.m6QECLcA001404@tigris.pounder.sol.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 26 09:12, Tom Rodman wrote:
> I use cygwin in a large domain, from time to time my account is
> added or removed from domain groups without any warning (last
> time 'IT' added 'Domain Users' to some other domain group - so all
> domain users were impacted!). When this happens my credentials in
> a password-authenticated ssh session, get clobbered & I have
> to manually edit /etc/group, per:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg01287.html
>
> Does this issue "go away" under cygwin 1.7?
I don't know but it's supposed to be better. I relaxed the rules which
result in a token created through password login being overridden with a
self-created token. You will still have to create a new /etc/group,
though.
Corinna
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