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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.6


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Cygwin friends and users,


I just released a 6th TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release,
1.7.33-0.6.


Looks good so far.

An observation from my first test on a machine which is member of a domain:

mkpasswd -l and -L always print the HOST prefix.
mkpasswd -d and -D never print the DOMAIN prefix

This likely would break creation of local 'technical' user accounts in existing *-config scripts (possibly including the csih script):

e.g.:

  $ net user cyg_server PASSWORD /add
  $ mkpasswd -l -u cyg_server >> /etc/passwd

Result:

  $ id cyg_server
  id: cyg_server: no such user

  $ id THISHOST+cyg_server
  uid=....


Now on my wishlist: an nsswitch.conf option to change the 'print prefix' behavior for machines in a domain.

Christian


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