On Mar 9 16:26, Glenn Strauss via Cygwin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 02:01:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Mar 5 23:38, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 at 14:11, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin > > > <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Feb 23 22:15, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > > > > HOWEVER, there is another Cygwin bug: > > > > > "getent group mywingrp1" does not list any group members, even after > > > > > "net localgroup mywingrp1 mywinuser44 /add", which is a POSIX > > > > > violation. > > > > > > > > Not a bug. Two problems: > > > > > > > > - Getting members of a group can be an extremly costly operation > > > > in a domain or, worse, a domain forest, or even worse, if the > > > > domain or domain forest is remote. > > > > > > > > - Alonmg the same lines, getting members of a group can be extremly > > > > costly in big orgs with thousands of users. Nobody want's to clutter > > > > up space with the list of members in the "Domain Users" group. > > > > > > > > - Permissions to enumerate members of a group are restricted. > > > > By default only admins and group members are allow to enumerate > > > > members and this can be restricted further by domain admins. > > > > > > > > Therefore we dropped even trying to populate gr_mem, considering > > > > that even in its original form on Unix systems, it's used only > > > > to add supplementary groups. To do this right on Windows is even > > > > more costly than blindly enumerating. > > > > > > > > It's not a bug, it's a feature :) > > > > > > Could you add an option to getent so that the full lookup can be > > > requested via command line, pls? > > > > That's not possible. getent just calls getpwent/getgrent. > > > > > Always editing /etc/nsswitch.conf > > > forth and back is not a elegant solution, aside from race conditions > > > with other users on a system > > > > So, here we go again. > > > > - What exactly are you trying to accomplish by enumerating the accounts? > > Maybe you won't actually need it for your task at hand. > > > > - Why do you have to change nsswitch.conf "back and forth"? > > Just change it once and you're done. > > > > > > Corinna > > Hello > > > Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd > > > > Always editing /etc/nsswitch.conf > > > forth and back is not a elegant solution, aside from race conditions > > > with other users on a system > > Please check the man page for getent. > > man getent > getent --help > > You can use -s or --service to override the service used without > editing nsswitch.conf. The man page on Linux provides an example > with a bit more details than the man page for getent under cygwin. > https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/getent.1.html
The -s option is just available for compatibility, but otherwise a no-op on Cygwin. The -i option works as upstream, -w is a Cygwin-only option. The Cygwin getent.1 man page is a bit old, given it's taken from upstream and just slightly adapted from glibc 2.18.90, a good 10 years ago. The upstream man page at the time did not document the options for some reason. These days it documents the options, so we could fetch this and create a new manpage from there. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
