/dev/ptmx fails with Azure accounts

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 18 10:04:00 GMT 2016


On Aug 16 17:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 16 11:27, rmora@aboutgolf.com wrote:
> > Hi Corinna
> > 
> > On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 05:12, "Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> said:
> > 
> > > Hi Russell,
> > > 
> > > This is as bad as I feared.  Apart from the username and the Windows
> > > home dir, there are no other information which could be fetched by
> > > the usual means.  Quite apart from the fact that there are no means to
> > > *store* this information somewhere, other than creating an explicit
> > > /etc/passwd and matching /etc/group entry.
> > > 
> > > But, anyway, I prepared some code for the Cygwin DLL to handle these
> > > accounts even if no /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries are present.  It
> > > still needs some work, though, and for that I'd ask you to perform a
> > > last test.
> > > [...]
> > Unknown+User@Lenovo-PC /cygdrive/c/cygwin64
> > $ gcc -W azure-check5.c -l Netapi32 -o azure-check5
> > 
> > Unknown+User@Lenovo-PC /cygdrive/c/cygwin64
> > $ ./azure-check5
> > Sid: S-1-12-1-2043906341-1249388050-2635137163-399631282
> > Dom\Name: AzureAD\RussellMora
> > Reverse Sid (RussellMora): S-1-12-1-2043906341-1249388050-2635137163-399631282
> > Reverse Sid (AzureAD\RussellMora): S-1-12-1-2043906341-1249388050-2635137163-399631282
> 
> Good to know, thank you.  Give me a bit and I'll come up with a Cygwin
> DLL for testing.

FTR, this has been kinked out off-list.  The resulting patch is in git
master now.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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