On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote: > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. > > > > This is a really fat problem. > > Who needs this functionality?
I don't remember, but some user on this list wrote in February about how he uses this for... something. Something to do with logging in to other machines or so. > Is it some legacy of passwd(5) compatibility, such as the wish to > have colons in Windows login names? No, it's just some legacy of how we allow this for /etc/passwd and /etc/group. See, for instance entries like root:S-1-5-21-544:0: to fake a root group backed by the administrators group. It seemed like a good idea at the time (2000 or so) and this would not be possible anymore. But, in fact, I was trying to make sure all the time that our applications don't rely on this. And if we actually have an application which relies on this, it's a bug. > Does the move to AD/SAM eliminate the original need, so that you > actually have *two* reasons to stop paying the runtime expense? I never had this need. To me it was just a funny extension. But maybe other users are using this, so I'm a bit unlucky now that I invented it in the first place. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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