On May 7 16:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >And here's a problem which I'm not sure how to solve at all: > > > > > >When calling the latest mkpasswd, the primary group of the local > > >user account backing the Microsoft Account will *still* be "None". > > > > > >The reason is that the local account is just the same old account > > >as usual. Its default primary group *is* "None". > > > > > >Only when logging in via the Micosoft Account email address, the > > >user token will not reflect what's stored in the local SAM, but > > >will have been changed by the OS as outlined in this thread. > > > > > >So, when a user decides to create a passwd file rather than using > > >the SAM/DB code in Cygwin, the information generated by mkpasswd > > >will not match the user token, and the primary group stored in > > >/etc/passwd will not even be available at all in the user token. > > > > > >I have not the faintest idea how to workaround this schizophrenia. > > > > > > > > >Corinna > > > > > Oh wow. It took me two reads of this to understand it. Caffeine is > > finally kicking in, I guess. Unless you just want to hard code the > > primary group that mkpasswd generates to "Users" for any account > > that it would tend to want to set as "None". That would be some > > smelly code though. > > Hmm, but it might fix a couple of problems. If we go ahead and > always convert the "None" primary group to "Users", we'd have a > pretty stable state, which works nicely for local accounts, > independently of habving logged in as normal account or as Microsoft > Account. This might be the easiest workaound, in fact.
I created a new snapshot on http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which introduces the following behaviour, which is a bit less intrusive: If a local account is connected to a Microsoft Account, the primary group defaults to "Users". If it's a normal local accout it defaults to "None", as usual. This also covers mkpasswd from the snapshot. This does not work if you continue to use an already existing /etc/passwd file. I have no good solution for this sccenario, other than a (yet to be written) FAQ entry. Hope that helps nevertheless. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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