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Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:35:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'
- References: <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> <0ML4cO-1Ko5zN0uBo-000bOA@mx.kundenserver.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 9 17:35, Herb Maeder wrote:
> On 09 Oct 2008 13:05:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Bingo. We now have two entries for Domain Users, one with gid 898
> > and one with 10513.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. The behavior makes sense to me now.
>
> But I think that means that some of the information in the "Special values
> of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's Guide is out of date.
>
> Would it be appropriate to include some of the information from your
> description above in that section?
I don't think that these internals should be mentioned in the user's guide.
> Would it be possible to add a case for this group name in the /etc/profile
> "id -ng" case statement so that the user will be notified and have some
> idea of what it means and what to do about it?
id is a generic tool from coreutils. I for one wouldn't think it
prudent to add special Cygwin code just to warn the user of some
system specific corner case.
> The "passwd/group_GID_clash" group name probably also deserves a mention
> in the Cygwin User's Guide.
That's right, but this part of the ntsec documentation is waiting
patiently for an update for a long time anyway. I just had always
more important stuff to do (looking tv, sleeping, ...)
> Thank you for investigating this issue and implementing a reasonable
> solution.
Thanks to you for the report.
Corinna
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