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On May 23 17:10, Joel Johnson wrote: > I've been reading the mailing list updates on the new password handling as > tipped by the message in the updated getent package a few days ago. First, > thanks for putting this update in place, it will be a welcome improvement > here with our group. I did notice that 1.7.30 was released earlier today > with no announcement and apparently doesn't have the new functionality yet > as expected though. The problem was in fact that the announcement mechanism had a hiccup. I uploaded 1.7.30 yesterday but only could create the announcement a few minutes ago. > In my testing locally, everything seems to be going well with the exception > of one issue that I'm seeing. Upon initial upgrade to the snapshot library, > when opening a console I would get the "id: cannot find name for group ID" > message as mentioned previously during testing [1]. This was tested with > snapshots as recent as today [1.7.31s(0.273/5/3) 20140523 10:31:42 i686 > Cygwin]. In my testing I didn't change anything except add the new snapshot > dll. Of note is that I had an old /etc/passwd file with (obviously) > different uid/pgid numbers, and the error was caused by trying to lookup the > old primary gid as listed in the passwd entry and failing. > > According to the discussion previously on the list, cygwin should report it > as a fake group (either Unknown_Group+XXXX or Unknown+Group with gid -1, > depending on the reference I read). In this case, the uid is resolved > correctly (via passwd entry), however the group is not. First of all, thanks for testing, I really appreciate it. Hmm, I'm not sure the code can support this scenario as before. I'll be unavailable for the next three weeks, but maybe I can have another look into this this weekend. Just don't hold your breath. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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