Re: ntsec patch description (1st try)

[Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>]

On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 04:50:50PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>From cygwin-developers-return-304-schilling=fokus.gmd.de@sourceware.cygnus.com Thu May 27 02:50:25 1999
>
>>To give help for creating correct passwd and group files, look at
>>the following examples, that are parts of my files. With the exception
>>of my personal user entry, all entries are well known entries. For
>>better understanding, the names are translated to english NT version:
>
>>/etc/passwd
>>===========
>>everyone:*:0:0:::
>>system:*:18:18:::
>>administrator::500:544::/home/root:/bin/bash
>>guest:*:501:546:::
>>administrators:*:544:544::/home/root:
>>corinna::1000:547:Corinna Vinschen:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
>
>>/etc/group
>>==========
>>everyone::0:
>>system::18:
>>none::513:
>>administrators::544:
>>users::545:
>>guests::546:
>>powerusers::547:
>
>Nice idea. If this would be part of Cygwin, 'star' would allow you to write
>to a remote tape drive on a UNIX server. I already tested this some weeks ago.

What's the "nice idea" here?  I'm missing something.  /etc/passwd and /etc/group
are already part of cygwin and Corinna's changes are in the latest snapshots.

-chris