Re: Re: [update] base-files

[John Morrison <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>]

This is the only reference I can find to mkgroup_l_d;

$ grep -rin mkgroup_ *
winsup/utils/mkgroup.c:477:  printf ("mkgroup_l_d:%s:%u:", print_sids ?
put_sid (tg.psid) : "",

what does it do (and what should I say when `id -ng` = "mkgroup_l_d")?

J.

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> I am on vacation and using an unsubscribed address from an
> internet cafe, hence the personal mail to Igor.
> Thereis no other than mkpasswd, mkgroup and mkgroup_l_d.
> Checking uid's becomes useless with 1.5, don't bother.
>
> Pierre
>
> >
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
> > Date: 2003/08/10 Sun PM 01:20:13 EDT
> > To: John Morrison <john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com>
> > CC: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: [update] base-files
> >
> > John,
> >
> > On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, John Morrison wrote:
> >
> > > At last, a new version of base-files to try :)
> > > [snip]
> > > I've also added a test for id -ng = "mkpasswd" or = "mkgroup"
> > > along with a message.  Hopefully this might cut down on the number
> > > of "I have no user" messages :)
> >
> > Did you also check for the "mkgroup_l_d" value?  There might be some more,
> > too -- Pierre would probably know right away; if he doesn't chime in, I'll
> > take a look at the code.
> >
> > > If there's a similar test I can do for UID "out of range" I'd
> > > be happy to add that to.
> >
> > I doubt you can check the *current* UID for being out of range, as the
> > numeric value returned is already truncated.  You could check if
> > /etc/passwd contains UID+65536 or UID+131072 (the most common case and the
> > next possible one) and issue a warning (with instructions to patch up
> > /etc/passwd) in that case...
> >
> > FYI, we're working on a set of new tests in cygcheck, and checking
> > /etc/passwd and /etc/group planned as one of those tests.  If there's a
> > way to check whether the UIDs are 16-bit or 32-bit (other than checking
> > 1.3 vs 1.5, which, now that I think of it, might also work), cygcheck
> > could then issue a warning if /etc/passwd contains UIDs > 64k.
> >
> > One last note: any messages printed from postinstall scripts are not seen
> > by the user -- they go directly to setup.log.full.  So, if you want this
> > to be seen, we better either move this functionality to cygcheck, or
> > duplicate it there.
> > 	Igor
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> >
> >
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