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Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:38:26 +0400
- Subject: Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration
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- References: <20140410145323 dot GB2437 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <5346D32C dot 1060907 at cornell dot edu> <20140410174929 dot GG2437 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> >The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again.
>> >It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group
>> >account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
>> >files.
>> >
>> >Not a lot has changed since we made a break to test for 1.7.29,
>> >but there's one important change I'd like to point out:
>> >
>> >* cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching.
>> >
>> > All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd
>> > and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit
>> > slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more information
>> > is present and later started processes will get the information
>> > with all due speed.
>>
>> Do we need to install cygserver.exe from the snapshot in order to
>> get this functionality, or is cygwin1.dll enough?
> This required new code in cygserver to handle the application requests,
> so you need the snapshot cygserver.
I think he was asking, if we are _required_ to install cygserver, or the dll
is enough?
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 13.04.2014, <14:37>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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