Re: SSHd configuration problems (System error 1376)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jan  8 02:38, Houder wrote:
> Corinna wrote:
> 
> > The aforementioned message is a result of a change in how the function
> > underlying `id' works.
> [snip]
> 
> > The old getgroups iterated through the groups from /etc/groups, and then
> > checked for each group if its SID is available in the user's token.
> >
> > This behaviour only makes sense if there is a self-contained list of
> > groups in memory.  But the new code doesn't read all of /etc/group, or,
> > worse, all groups from the Windows account DB.  So the new, more logical
> > behaviour is to iterate over the groups in the user's token and then
> > checking for (or generating) a group entry for the SID.  So, in contrast
> > to the old code, the new code only generates a single group entry per
> > SID.
> 
> ... to iterate over the groups in the user's token ...
> 
> But, by design, groups NOT present in the group file will NOT be reported
> by id, in case the nsswitch.conf file specififies:
> 
> # only show me the gid's I am interested in (i.e. those in the group file)
> group: files
> 
> Correct?

Correct.


Corinna

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