19990805 Snapshot!!

[Chris Faylor]

On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 10:23:55AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> wrote:
>> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> > NT4 sp3 Normal domain user.  I have no /etc/passwd and no /etc/group files.
>> > CYGWIN=notty binmode notitle.
>> 
>> As I mentioned often enough before: ntsec is really dependent on correct
>> installed /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. If you don't have it, create it.
>> Read winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml for more info.
>
>Hmm.  I can see a lot of problems on the list with this.  Actually, I think
>we're already seeing problems posted to the list based on this problem.  Since
>this is a new feature, it might be best served with the default being nontsec
>in all cases.  Then if ntsec is set and the proper /etc/passwd and /etc/group
>files don't exist give a nice fat error with instructions of where to look for
>the documentation for the proper use of ntsec and abort.

ntsec is on by default now so that people will help check for bugs.  I
asked people to check this before I made it the default, but...

Corinna has pointed out that *at least* some of the problems are not
ntsec related since she can duplicate them with CYGWIN=nontsec, so I'm
(futilely?) trying to track down why my system works and so many other
people are having problems.

cgf