Summary:
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- 'id -ng' reports incorrect information when /etc/group is a symlink to
another valid file containing all of the relevant GROUP information.
First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of the
Cygwin developers, maintainers, and contributors! I have been an avid
Cygwin User and Evangelist for over five years. During this time I have
found Cygwin to be an extremely powerful environment.
Please keep up the GREAT WORK and THANK YOU for all of your tireless labors!
Unfortunately, I have run into a problem with the latest Cygwin release
that I alone cannot resolve...
Try as I may, I cannot find any relevant information specific to my
issue in the FAQ or the newsgroups. If, however, it has been addressed
therein already, please accept my sincere apology.
Installation conditions:
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- Cygwin 1.75-1
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows XP 32-bit (separate systems)
- Installed on local (NTFS) file system (C:\cygwin)
Details:
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When /etc/group is a symlink to a valid and correctly formatted file
containing the group information elsewhere on the system (e.g.,
/etc/group -> /etc/_group), 'id -ng' will always return 'mkgroup' as the
users group.
However, if I remove the /etc/group symlink and rename /etc/_group to
/etc/group, then 'id -ng' returns the correct user group information
('None' in this case).
Also, for reference, I have been successfully using a symlink for the
/etc/group and /etc/passwd files for years in Cygwin 1.5x without issue
and I would like to continue doing so in 1.7x. (The reason is to
provide a more centralized administration method within a Windows Domain
environment where I only have to maintain a single passwd and group file
rather than individual files on multiple client systems.)
Therefore, the problem seems to be localized to the use of a symlink in
Cygwin 1.7x.
I have tried this under the following conditions with no change in the
result:
- Established the CYGWIN environment variable _prior_ to bash invocation
as follows:
CYGWIN=tty
(confirmed the resulting symlink was the default Cygwin 1.7x
non-Windows compatible symlink).
Here is an excerpt of 'strace id -ng':
37 7191 [main] id 2500 symlink_info::check: 0x0 = NtCreateFile
(\??\C:\cygwin\etc)
28 7219 [main] id 2500 symlink_info::check: not a symlink
23 7242 [main] id 2500 symlink_info::check: 0 = symlink.check
(C:\cygwin\etc, 0x22B960) (0x1E00A)
19 7261 [main] id 2500 path_conv::check:
this->path(C:\cygwin\etc), has_acls(1)
62 7323 [main] id 2500 etc::test_file_change:
NtQueryFullAttributesFile (\??\C:\cygwin\etc\group) failed, 0xC0000034
69 7392 [main] id 2500 etc::test_file_change:
NtQueryFullAttributesFile (\??\C:\cygwin\etc\group) failed, 0xC0000034
88 7480 [main] id 2500 pwdgrp::load: \etc\group load failed
- Established the CYGWIN environment variable _prior_ to bash invocation
as follows:
CYGWIN=tty winsymlinks
(confirmed the resulting symlink was a Windows compatible symlink).
Here is an excerpt of 'strace id -ng':
35 7073 [main] id 336 symlink_info::check: 0x0 = NtCreateFile
(\??\C:\cygwin\etc)
27 7100 [main] id 336 symlink_info::check: not a symlink
23 7123 [main] id 336 symlink_info::check: 0 = symlink.check
(C:\cygwin\etc, 0x22B960) (0x1E00A)
18 7141 [main] id 336 path_conv::check: this->path(C:\cygwin\etc),
has_acls(1)
61 7202 [main] id 336 etc::test_file_change:
NtQueryFullAttributesFile (\??\C:\cygwin\etc\group) failed, 0xC0000034
68 7270 [main] id 336 etc::test_file_change:
NtQueryFullAttributesFile (\??\C:\cygwin\etc\group) failed, 0xC0000034
87 7357 [main] id 336 pwdgrp::load: \etc\group load failed
- Under both conditions, a 'cat /etc/group' displays the same content as
the target file (e.g., 'cat /etc/_group') indicating the symlink does
indeed function correctly. Therefore, this appears to be related to
'id' (at the least).
Questions:
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Is this a bug in Cygwin 1.7.5-1 (within 'id', or some other component)?
Is there a work-around or fix for this issue?
Thank you in advance for your assistance!
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