Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>]

Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> >> This is a pretty intrusive change, in need of some serious testing, so
>> >> I'd like to ask for volunteers.  The latest 2014-02-13 snapshot from
>> >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains the changes, including the latest
>> >> bugfix.
>> 
>> > I noticed another thing. Not sure if I would call it a problem, just
>> > an observation or if it is a feature.
>> 
>> > As said before, my laptop is part of a domain and I have moved the
>> > local passwd and group out of the way.
>> 
>> > When I am not connected to the domain (on the road) I get this error
>> > every time I start mintty: "id: kan geen naam vinden bij groeps-ID
>> > 1049089"
>> > I have an export LANG=en_US.utf8 in my .bashrc so since the text is in
>> > Dutch this happens before the .bashrc is executed. It basically
>> > translates to "id: unable to find name for group ID 1049089".
>> 
>> > When I start my vpn and re-open mintty the error doesn't show up
>> > anymore, even if I disconnect the vpn again. After rebooting the error
>> > message occurs again.
>> 
>> > The reason for the message seems obvious. The process can't lookup the
>> > information. But it can be confusing to users to see an error at
>> > startup. Is it error useful to the user? Can I suppress this message?
>> 
>> I suppose, with latest Corinna's modifications to the ways `id' lookup the
>> data, this message would go away naturally.
>> I don't know, if the changes are available in a public snapshot, though.

> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-02/msg00707.html ?

Nearly missed it. This was a bit messy thursday for me.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 28.02.2014, <03:06>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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