This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: POSIX and uid_t resp. gid_t
- To: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda at jaist dot ac dot jp>
- Subject: Re: POSIX and uid_t resp. gid_t
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 16:03:45 +0200
- CC: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <199909132129.XAA25648@fokus.gmd.de> <37DD8D8D.CADD9D3C@vinschen.de> <s1svh8oaniy.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>
Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>
> >>> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:49:33 +0200
> >>> Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> said:
>
> > The real problem is the existence of the NT SID, which isn't
> > transparently reducable to an UX UID or GID. If we find a method,
> > the problem would be solved.
>
> Would you like to use the GCOS field in the passwd file ?
> This field can have any comma separated subfields after the
> user's full name. So it can have all components included in SID
> as shown below:
> fujieda::1002:513:Kazuhiro Fujieda,5,15,6D20806B,69505750,7B205C01,3EA:/Home/fujieda:/bin/bash
Thanks for the feedback, Kazuhiro.
This is an interesting idea. Yesterday I thought about a shadow file.
If we can't do without those /etc files, an additional shadow file
shouldn't be a problem.
But if I could completely do without them, I would be glad.
Regards,
Corinna