On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:11:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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 > Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems so I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host name is in ~/.rhosts
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