Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > Since Cygwin already lets the underlying OS take care of much of the > > security (handling passwords, etc.), can't Cygwin just ask Windows for the > > user's groups when needed, to? > > How? Consider that getgrent just enumerates /etc/group. It doesn't > know for what purpose the calling application does it. I don't think it > makes a lot of sense to call a OS function for each getgrent call to > fill out the gr_mem field on the fly. > > Having said that, I don't intend to change this behaviour myself. > However, I'm certainly not averse to patches to Cygwin which add this > behaviour, as long as it's not getting too slow by this. > > Corinna > > P.S.: How did the subject disappear?!?
No clue about the subject - I'm using Gmane to reply, since I'm usually without reliable SMTP access. If group membership IS currently required to be listed in /etc/group for these functions (groups, id, getugroups(), getgrent(), etc...), shouldn't mkgroup -ul, with the "-u", be run by default at Cygwin first-run? Also, including this better in the documentation would be a plus. Also, "mkgroup -u" has a bug, as far as I'm concerned. It always includes the Windows' username, even if renamed in /etc/passwd for Cygwin-purposes. For example, take a Windows username of "John Smith". I renamed the first field in /etc/passwd to "jsmith" to avoid the space. "jsmith" should (and needs) to be included in the gr_mem field, not "John Smith", otherwise all of the above functions fail to see that this user is a member of any groups... I do see one issue with implementing the OS-group-calls into Cygwin - Win95/98 don't have any concept of user groups. This would have to be accounted for... Maybe I'll convert the http://http://cygwin-getugroups.pbwiki.com/ site to address the possibility of adding this functionality... Thanks for the replies! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
