On Feb 16 08:09, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-02-16 02:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 15 14:51, Bill Stewart wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:38 PM Brian Ingliswrote: > >> > >>> Windows normally allows "." to be used to refer to the local machine name > >>> in a > >>> domain context - can anyone confirm or deny whether this works in Cygwin > >>> or with > >>> getent? > >> > >> AFAICT, the "." shortcut does not work in Cygwin. > > > > The combining operator for domain prepended usernames is '+'. This > > is the same character as used by good old Interix for the same purpose. > > That was not in question - the question was could .+$USER be used in lieu of > $COMPUTERNAME+$USER or $HOSTNAME+$USER and should $COMPUTERNAME rather than > $HOSTNAME be used in such contexts?
Yeah, I misunderstood this, sorry. The answer is no. The username is fixed. Otherwise you'd have two auto-generated passwd entries for the same user which may lead to confusion (not necessarily confusion on the user side...) If this is a desired feature, we could try this, but it might break existing setups again. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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