From 489d1e5db9cf2bbe7f0d63ff468635c2682ed190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:19:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * ntsec.xml: Disable description of db_prefix and db_separator settings. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ winsup/doc/ntsec.xml | 21 +++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 180f03412..0ec9114ab 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2014-08-31 Corinna Vinschen + + * ntsec.xml: Disable description of db_prefix and db_separator settings. + 2014-08-31 Corinna Vinschen * utils.xml (getfacl): Document additional suid/sgid/vtx flag printing. diff --git a/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml b/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml index f2269fd8b..76b54ec40 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml @@ -117,12 +117,12 @@ treat these SIDs as identifying two separate accounts. One is "FOO\johndoe", the other one is "BAR\johndoe" or "johndoe@bar.local". Different SID, different account. Full stop. -Starting with Cygwin 1.7.32, Cygwin uses an automatic, internal +Starting with Cygwin 1.7.33, Cygwin uses an automatic, internal translation from Windows SID to POSIX UID/GID. This mechanism, which is the preferred method for the SID<=>UID/GID mapping, is described in detail in . -Up to Cygwin 1.7.31, the last part of the SID, the so called +Prior to Cygwin 1.7.33, the last part of the SID, the so called "Relative IDentifier" (RID), was by default used as UID and/or GID when you created the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files using the @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ documented, albeit in a confusing way and spread over multiple MSDN articles. -Starting with Cygwin 1.7.32, Cygwin utilizes an approach inspired by the +Starting with Cygwin 1.7.33, Cygwin utilizes an approach inspired by the mapping method as implemented by SFU, with a few differences for backward compatibility and to handle some border cases differently. @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ the same name, how do we uniquely differ between them by name? Well, we can do that by making their names unique in a per-machine way. Dependent on the domain membership of the account, and dependent of the machine being a domain member or not, the user and group names will be generated using a domain prefix -and a separator character between domain and account name. The default +and a separator character between domain and account name. The separator character is the plus sign, +. @@ -674,8 +674,8 @@ You want to specify a different login shell than /bin/bash. How this is done depends on your account being a domain account or a local account. Let's start with the default. Assuming your Windows account name is bigfoot and your domain is -MY_DOM. Your default passwd entry in absence of -anything I'll describe below looks like this: +MY_DOM. Your default passwd entry looks like this: @@ -1153,9 +1153,9 @@ file set up to all default values: # /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: files db group: files db - + db_enum: cache builtin @@ -1256,11 +1256,12 @@ always try the files first, then the db. The remaining entries define certain aspects of the Windows account -database search. +database search. Right now, only one entry is valid: + db_enum: defines the depth of a database search, if an