Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> In some of these systems, you can edit /etc/foo and run a command to >> manually sync that content back to the "real" user info DB. (e.g. >> the BSDs) In others, direct edits to these files are ignored, but >> the OS syncs a subset of changes to the user info DB to these files, >> for the benefit of getpwent() and friends. (e.g. Mac OS X.)
> That won't make much sense on Cygwin. The idea is to use the existing > OS tools to maintain the user/group databases in the first place. > Having said that, it would, of course, be possible to implement Cygwin > command line tools along the lines of useradd/usermod/groupdel. For AD, > they would just have to use LDAP, as Cygwin will do to read the account > info. It's pretty simple, as far as you view LDAP as simple, LDAP IS simple. It's a shame it is so little known outside specific circles. > However, I found that one functionality has to go completely. It will > not be possible anymore to ssh into your machine and add yourself to > arbitrary groups by adding your user name to groups in /etc/group. This > is just not feasible anymore. Erm. I call it a security improvement. To put it mildly. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 07.02.2014, <16:43> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
