On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without /etc/nsswitch.conf > present. Without it, my machine > is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign > machine'. Strikes me as ... > > Until now, I believed that the output of mkpasswd/mkgroup had no dependency > on /etc/nsswitch.conf.
The most recent version has. Here's what happens. If you call mkpasswd without parameter, it just calls Cygwin's internal enumeration functions. If you call with -l, it checks if `passwd:' is set to "files" only in /etc/nsswitch.conf. If so, it uses the old enumeration functions inside mkpasswd, which don't generate prefixed usernames for local accounts even on AD machines. However, the uids/gids differ when using this method. I could change the offset in this case to reduce the chance for a difference, but hey, there's no good reason to use /etc/passwd at all in your scenario :} Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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