RE: UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-19 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> Why not allow (and generate with mkgroup) URL encoding e.g. > "Domain%20Users"? Good idea that'd hopefully work, too! Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://c

Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread David Boyce
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 6/11/2012 9:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> >>>     Perhaps CYGWIN could have used a tab to separate the group names? >> >> What's to say that 'TAB' won't be valid in a group name? > > What's to say that any characters won't be valid in a nam

Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 6/11/2012 9:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Perhaps CYGWIN could have used a tab to separate the group names? What's to say that 'TAB' won't be valid in a group name? What's to say that any characters won't be valid in a name? Nothing. You gotta pick something and start somewhere.. -- Andrew

Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/11/2012 10:13 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > 2. Since Windows group names can embed spaces, the output of the "groups" > shell command 'groups' is no longer a shell command, but an executable, for several coreutils releases now. >is unparsable in CYGWIN (scripting b

UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hi, I have been porting quite a bit of software from native UNIX environment to CYGWIN, and despite there is a very elaborate UNIX group handling/mapping in CYGWIN, there are still a few discrepancies I would like to note: 1. When a user is a member of multiple Windows groups, this fact is not