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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
- From: "J.H. vd Water" <henri dot van dot de dot water at xs4all dot nl>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:58:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
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Hi Corinna,
>> However, as you know, the supplementary group to which I referred above do NOT show
>> up in my /etc/group file on Cygwin (they show up in SAM ... somewhere).
>>
>> ... and I do not care, as these groups are NOT relevant to me as a Cygwin-only user
>> of the Windows operating system (using passwd and group files).
>
>If you only want to use the content of your passwd and group files,
>rather than the db (which is pretty much upside down from what this
>patch is trying to accomplish, but, anyway), simply change your
>/etc/nsswitch.conf file accordingly. Just as on Linux.
:-) My /etc/nsswitch.conf file ALREADY specifies 'db_enum: files'.
However, as you probably aware of, the output of 'id' _still_ shows all
the (non-file ;-) supplementary groups I do not care about ...
That is what I tried to make clear with my message. No more.
Henri
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