[1.7] mkpasswd and mkgroup ignore user and group names with national characters

2009-05-15 Thread Alexey Borzenkov
I'm in a domain at work and previously used mkpasswd -d and mkgroup -d
to populate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Unfortunately, we mostly
use Russian versions of Windows (especially on servers) here and most
built-in user and group names (like Administrator, Domain Users, etc.)
are localized. With cygwin 1.5 these names were successfully exported
by mkpasswd/mkgroup, however with cygwin 1.7 all such usernames are
silently ignored and don't appear in the output.

Since my primary group is Domain Users every time I execute
cygwin.bat I see this:

Your group is currently mkgroup.  This indicates that neither
your gid nor your pgsid (primary group associated with your SID)
is in /etc/group.

The /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt.
See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run

mkpasswd -l [-d]  /etc/passwd
mkgroup  -l [-d]  /etc/group

Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.

Is it some bug or was it a design decision?

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Re: [1.7] mkpasswd and mkgroup ignore user and group names with national characters

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 15 11:43, Alexey Borzenkov wrote:
 I'm in a domain at work and previously used mkpasswd -d and mkgroup -d
 to populate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Unfortunately, we mostly
 use Russian versions of Windows (especially on servers) here and most
 built-in user and group names (like Administrator, Domain Users, etc.)
 are localized. With cygwin 1.5 these names were successfully exported
 by mkpasswd/mkgroup, however with cygwin 1.7 all such usernames are
 silently ignored and don't appear in the output.
 
 Since my primary group is Domain Users every time I execute
 cygwin.bat I see this:
 
 Your group is currently mkgroup.  This indicates that neither
 your gid nor your pgsid (primary group associated with your SID)
 is in /etc/group.
 
 The /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt.
 See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
 
 mkpasswd -l [-d]  /etc/passwd
 mkgroup  -l [-d]  /etc/group
 
 Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
 
 Is it some bug or was it a design decision?

It's missing setlcoale calls in the first place.  I'm going to fix that.


Thanks,
Corinna

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