On Aug 6 10:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 4 21:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I just uploaded a new snapshot to http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > > > This snapshot contains only a single change: It drops the prepended > > plus entirely, So the builtin and well-known accounts are now called as > > familiar: SYSTEM instead of +SYSTEM, Administrators instead of > > +Administrators, etc. > > > > The documentation doesn't reflect this change yet, but I will fix that > > pretty soon. > > > > As for other changes, I'm still not sure since we seem to have as > > many different opinions as interested community members :} > > > > I would still like to drop the db_prefix and db_separator settings and > > just stick to the setting called "auto": > > > > builtin accounts; "SYSTEM", "Administrators", etc. > > primary domain "corinna", "yaakov", ... > > > > This is typically all you see on non-domain machines. On domain > > maches, add this: > > > > other domain: "DOMAIN1+walter", "DOMAIN2+mathilda" > > > > (local SAM accounts are subsumed under "other domain" here). > > > > Would anybody have really terrible problems with this approach? > > If so, what problems? > > So nobody would really have a problem? Wow, that's cool. I guess > I'll remove the db_prefix and db_separator settings pretty soon.
Done. For the time being I decided to keep the code intact, but to disable the ability to change the settings from /etc/nsswitch.conf. This leaves us with a very simple nsswitch.conf which only understands passwd: group: db_enum: This is in the latest snapshot from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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