Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

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

On Feb 27 23:15, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Frank Fesevur!
> 
> >> This is a pretty intrusive change, in need of some serious testing, so
> >> I'd like to ask for volunteers.  The latest 2014-02-13 snapshot from
> >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains the changes, including the latest
> >> bugfix.
> 
> > I noticed another thing. Not sure if I would call it a problem, just
> > an observation or if it is a feature.
> 
> > As said before, my laptop is part of a domain and I have moved the
> > local passwd and group out of the way.
> 
> > When I am not connected to the domain (on the road) I get this error
> > every time I start mintty: "id: kan geen naam vinden bij groeps-ID
> > 1049089"
> > I have an export LANG=en_US.utf8 in my .bashrc so since the text is in
> > Dutch this happens before the .bashrc is executed. It basically
> > translates to "id: unable to find name for group ID 1049089".
> 
> > When I start my vpn and re-open mintty the error doesn't show up
> > anymore, even if I disconnect the vpn again. After rebooting the error
> > message occurs again.
> 
> > The reason for the message seems obvious. The process can't lookup the
> > information. But it can be confusing to users to see an error at
> > startup. Is it error useful to the user? Can I suppress this message?
> 
> I suppose, with latest Corinna's modifications to the ways `id' lookup the
> data, this message would go away naturally.
> I don't know, if the changes are available in a public snapshot, though.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-02/msg00707.html ?


Corinna

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