"Unknown" Groups Not Caching - Debugging

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 17 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 16 22:50, Bryan Berns wrote:
> > Posting here because that's what Corinna told me to do.
> > 
> > So I was looking into the issue I found with Cygwin not caching
> > orphaned / unknown groups.  At least for my test case, this appears to
> > be rooted in the RID getting striped from the end of the SID just
> > prior to the line being outputted (line 2464 from the exert below)
> > within fetch_account_from_windows().
> > 
> > uinfo.cc: 2460: /* Check if we know the domain.  If so, create a passwd/group
> > uinfo.cc: 2461:    entry with domain prefix and RID as username. */
> > uinfo.cc: 2462: PDS_DOMAIN_TRUSTSW td = NULL;
> > uinfo.cc: 2463:
> > uinfo.cc: 2464: sid_sub_auth_count (sid) = sid_sub_auth_count (sid) - 1;
> > 
> > It's not clear to me, in general, why we're interested in creating a
> > "passwd/group entry with domain prefix and RID as username".
> 
> Counter question.  Why not?  The result is that you know it's some
> account from a known domain, and the combination of the domain name
> and the RID results in a unique account name.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this and tracking it down to this point.
> The problem in your case is that the sid isn't reverted in the
> following !domain branch.
> 
> Please try this patch:
> 
> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc
> index 6186327..91d1d1c 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc
> @@ -2475,10 +2475,10 @@ pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows (fetch_user_arg_t &arg, cyg_ldap *pldap)
>  		  posix_offset = fetch_posix_offset (td, &loc_ldap);
>  		  break;
>  		}
> +	  sid_sub_auth_count (sid) = sid_sub_auth_count (sid) + 1;
>  	}
>        if (domain)
>  	{
> -	  sid_sub_auth_count (sid) = sid_sub_auth_count (sid) + 1;
>  	  wcscpy (dom, domain);
>  	  __small_swprintf (name = namebuf, L"%W(%u)",
>  			    is_group () ? L"Group" : L"User",
> 

I applied this patch to git HEAD.


Corinna

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