Corinna Vinschen writes: > Yes, I noticed the "s". But I missed to explain that I wasn't talking > about the delay. What I can't reproduce is that `id Administrators' > returns a result: > > $ id +Administrators > uid=544(+Administrators) gid=544(+Administrators) groups=11(+Authenticated > Users),544(+Administrators) > > but: > > $ id Administrators > id: Administrators: no such user > > But now I understand why this occurs. It's the different handling of > account names without domain prefix on standalone vs. domain machines. > I applied a patch now which checks the incoming names for validity under > the current naming rules, so, in theory, `id Administrators' should now > return "no such user" for you as well.
> I just created new snapshots on http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > Please give'em a try. Done, and now [x86_64 20140514]> id Administrators id: Administrators: no such user [x86_64 20140514]> +Administrators uid=544(+Administrators) gid=544(+Administrators) groups=11(+Authenticated Users),544(+Administrators) with no delay in either case. So _that's_ sorted. Overall, I now get the following clean pattern of id behaviour wrt prefix '+': w/o w + + SYSTEM no yes LocalService no yes NetworkService no yes Administrators no yes TrustedInstaller no yes Administrator yes no cyg_server yes no Guest yes no ht yes no postgres yes no sshd yes no [you can reproduce this using > cut -d ':' -f 1 /etc/passwd | while read u; do echo -n "$u "; if id $u >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then echo -n "yes "; else echo -n "no "; fi;if id '+'$u >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then echo "yes"; else echo "no"; fi done ] ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] -- 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
