Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Feb 18 18:14:00 GMT 2014


On Feb 18 18:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 18 18:16, J.H. vd Water wrote:
> > >> this week I applied the first incarnation of the new passwd/group
> > >> handling code to the Cygwin repository and after fixing a crash which
> > >> manifested in Denis Excoffier's network, I think we're at a point
> > >> which allows to push this forward.
> > >> [...]
> > >
> > >Ok guys, I just applied a patch implementing getpwent and getgrent,
> > >and the way to configure the output is probably more detailed than
> > >you ever wanted ...
> > 
> > Hi Corinna,
> > 
> > As I saw no response to your latest call for testers,  I decided to test it
> > myself ... (x86-XP, SP3).
> > 
> >  - setup "Cygwin" (base) in a different directory
> >  - applied tar ball (17/2 snapshot) as instructed at
> > 
> >    http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots
> > 
> > After I had set up /etc/nsswitch.conf as follows
> > 
> > db_enum: files
> > 
> > the output of getpwent and getgrent looked "familiar" to me. (though the
> > output of 'id' is not).
> 
> In how far?  Did you read my text in terms of how user and group names
> are created?  The leading separator char for builtin groups is an SFU
> thingy.  If it's too disturbing we can discuss changing that, but right
> now I'm still looking for some kind of similarity.
> 
> > However, after I had modified /etc/nsswitch.conf as follows
> > 
> > db_enum: local
> > 
> > getpwent crashed (segment violation) ...
> 
> Thanks for testing, but I can't reproduce this.  I tried on 32 bit
> Windows 7 and 64 bit Windows 8.1.
> 
> How did you build getpwent?  Did you stop your Cygwin shell and restart
> it?  Can you please send the getpwent.exe.stackdump file?

And, is the machine a domain member machine or not?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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