Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct  9 17:35, Herb Maeder wrote:
> On 09 Oct 2008 13:05:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >   Bingo.  We now have two entries for Domain Users, one with gid 898
> >   and one with 10513.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.  The behavior makes sense to me now.  
> 
> But I think that means that some of the information in the "Special values
> of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's Guide is out of date.
> 
> Would it be appropriate to include some of the information from your
> description above in that section?

I don't think that these internals should be mentioned in the user's guide.

> Would it be possible to add a case for this group name in the /etc/profile
> "id -ng" case statement so that the user will be notified and have some
> idea of what it means and what to do about it?

id is a generic tool from coreutils.  I for one wouldn't think it
prudent to add special Cygwin code just to warn the user of some
system specific corner case.

> The "passwd/group_GID_clash" group name probably also deserves a mention
> in the Cygwin User's Guide.

That's right, but this part of the ntsec documentation is waiting
patiently for an update for a long time anyway.  I just had always
more important stuff to do (looking tv, sleeping, ...)

> Thank you for investigating this issue and implementing a reasonable 
> solution.

Thanks to you for the report.


Corinna

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