Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Message-ID: <375D7CBF.27DAD5AA@vinschen.de>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 22:27:43 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
X-Accept-Language: de,en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
CC: Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>,
        cygwin-developers <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: default /etc/passwd contents
References: <0873 DOT 990608 AT logos-m DOT ru> <19990608131346 DOT A1137 AT cygnus DOT com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> Hopefully Corinna will respond to this.  I don't know how it impacts
> her security changes.

It can't work with `ntsec' but it maybe useful with `nontsec'.

> If we are going to add a dummy line, why not actually make it meaningful
> and have it default to the current users's name, uid and gid?

You can't get gid, because gid is only meaningful, if it's read from
/etc/passwd. Remember: Outside of domains, no primary group exists.
You only get name and uid but it should be possible, to use the
administrators group (gid 544) as primary group in any case.

Regards,
Corinna

-- 
new mail address:
mailto:corinna AT vinschen DOT de