On May 13 12:57, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>
> > I'm still interested in testing of the new Cygwin code to have
> > user/group identification without requiring /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> > files.
>
> So I installed the 2014-05-09 x86_64 snapshot, and did nothing else
> (i.e. left /etc/{passwd,group} alone, didn't create an
> /etc/nsswitch.conf), since your attachment didn't contain anything
> which said "Minimum necessary to make this all work is ...".Yes, that was a mistake. I would be mostely interested in experiences (and anoyances) by dropping /etc/passwd and /etc/group. The easiest way to do that is NOT to move the files out of the way, but just adding an /etc/nsswitch.conf file with this simple content: passwd: db group: db And, having said that, I'd be really glad for more people reading and ciriticising the preliminary documentation... > I then successfully launched mintty, but (since the most important > aspect of my 'identity' is my ability to authenticate using Kerberos), > the next thing I tried did not work as expected: > > > kinit > Password: .... > kinit: krb5_get_init_creds: unable to reach any KDC in realm [the right realm > for me] > > > > Switching back to 1.7.29-2 fixed the problem. > > What can I do to help locate the problem (unless you have a Kerberos > principal around you presumably can't reproduce this for yourself)? I can reproduce it. This has nothing to with the account stuff, but rather with a problem with the IPV6 definitions in the Mingw-w64 headers I encountered lately, and which I had to workaround. Unfortunately it has unwanted side-effects. Sigh. I'm looking into it. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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