Hi folks,
I just uploaded getent-2.18.90-2. getent is a Glibc tool which allows to fetch host, passwd, group, protocol, and service information via a simple tool. The -2 version introduces the ability to ask for passwd and group entries via their Windows SID, for instance: $ getent passwd S-1-5-18 SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: or, with a recent developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and the upcoming Cygwin 1.7.30: $ getent passwd S-1-5-18 +SYSTEM:*:18:18:U-NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM,S-1-5-18:/home/SYSTEM:/bin/bash ===================================================================== IMPORTANT (not only) FOR CYGWIN PACKAGE MAINTAINERS ===================================================================== The most important aspect for Cygwin for the near future is this: With the new passwd/group code just in testing (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-02/msg00306.html for lots and lots of information), tools and scripts must not rely anymore on being able to grep user and group information from /etc/passwd and /etc/group! The new way to read passwd and group information from, for instance, service installation helper scripts, is to use the getent tool for this purpose. I'd like to urge all maintainers which provide such scripts to look into their packages and fix them to use the getent tool, rather than grep'ing /etc/passwd and /etc/group directly. ===================================================================== Have fun, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
