Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 26 10:02:00 GMT 2014


On Feb 26 06:17, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> > Other than that, I just had an in-shower inspiration how to speed up
> > `id' specificially.  The getgroups(2) call is in the center of this and
> > I could probably speed up the stuiff a lot by opening the LDAP
> > connection in getgroups only once. 
> 
> Isn't local SAM database augmented with domain entries, when machine is part
> of the domain? 

No.  The local SAM only ever contains local and well-known accounts.
Side-effect: Even the supplementary well-known accounts defined in AD
are not resolved by LookupAccountSid(NULL, ...).


Corinna

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