I have thousands of users and they change all the time. I really don’t want to have to update a file on all windows machines. That’s the point of having LDAP.
> On Jan 11, 2019, at 4:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> > wrote: > > On Jan 10 20:28, Charles Hedrick wrote: >> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen >> <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com<mailto:corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com>> wrote: >> >> Well, it should. What happens is this: After asking the non-AD LDAP >> server for the account name, it asks the account fetching algorithm for >> that name from scratch. This depends on the /etc/nsswitch.conf >> settings, of course (*). Assuming "passwd: files db", it first checks >> the local /etc/passwd file for a matching entry for that account name, >> then the OS, preferring AD on an AD member machine, then local SAM. >> >> In my scenario there’s nothing in /etc/passwd, AD, or SAM for most users, >> but they are all available from LDAP. > > Sure there's nothing in /etc/passwd. The file is created by *you* on > demand, not automatically by Cygwin (except on older releases). > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen > Cygwin Maintainer
