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Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin
L A Walsh writes:
> If you don't have /etc/passwd or /etc/group, cygwin will generate
> DOMAIN+USER entries dynamically each time you start cygwin (or per-boot)
> if you have cygwin processes started at boot.
This is wrong. Cygwin never "generates" those nor do they change, they
are coming from the DC. I do think they get cached if you run
cygserver, but I'm not sure about that.
> If you want consistency -- same user names+id's with each boot and
> MS-Win compatible names, you may want to create /etc/passwd
> and /etc/group using mkpasswd, mkgroup and hand tuning. It isn't
> suggested for most users, but it may be something you want.
There aren't very many situations where you'd still need either of
those, especially not if your machine is a domain member.
Regards,
Achim.
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