* cygwin.xsl: Allow 3 section levels in TOC.
* new-features.xml: (ov-new1.7.32): Add new section. * ntsec.xml: Rename top-level section to reflect extension of topics. Remove old /etc/passwd, /etc/group considerations. Add new sections explaining Windows to POSIX account mapping. Make setuid sections third level sections. * pathnames.xml: Note new method of account mapping for fstab.d/$USER. * faq-setup.xml: Rework references to /etc/passwd and /etc/group to reflect changes to account handling. * faq-using.xml: Ditto.
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2014-07-30 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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* cygwin.xsl: Allow 3 section levels in TOC.
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* new-features.xml: (ov-new1.7.32): Add new section.
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* ntsec.xml: Rename top-level section to reflect extension of topics.
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Remove old /etc/passwd, /etc/group considerations. Add new sections
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explaining Windows to POSIX account mapping. Make setuid sections
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third level sections.
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* pathnames.xml: Note new method of account mapping for fstab.d/$USER.
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* faq-setup.xml: Rework references to /etc/passwd and /etc/group to
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reflect changes to account handling.
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* faq-using.xml: Ditto.
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2014-07-21 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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* new-features.xml: (ov-new1.7.31): Add new section.
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<xsl:param name="html.stylesheet" select="'docbook.css'"/>
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<xsl:param name="use.id.as.filename" select="1" />
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<xsl:param name="root.filename" select="@id" />
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<xsl:param name="toc.section.depth" select="3" />
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</xsl:stylesheet>
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run mkpasswd.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>You can simply edit the /etc/passwd file and change the Cygwin user name
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(first field). It's also a good idea to avoid spaces in the home directory.
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<listitem><para>If you already have an /etc/passwd file, you can simply edit
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your Cygwin user name (first field). It's also a good idea to avoid spaces in
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the home directory.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<listitem><para><literal>HOME</literal> from the Windows environment, translated to POSIX form.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>The entry in /etc/passwd
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<listitem><para>The pw_home field from the passwd entry as returned by <command>getent passwd</command>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>/home/USERNAME
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>When using Cygwin from the network (telnet, ssh,...), <literal>HOME</literal> is set
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from /etc/passwd.
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<para>When using Cygwin from the network (telnet, ssh,...), <literal>HOME</literal> is taken from the passwd entry.
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</para>
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<para>If your <literal>HOME</literal> is set to a value such as /cygdrive/c, it is likely
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that it was set in Windows. Start a DOS Command Window and type
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</para>
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<para>Access to shared drives is often restricted when starting from the network,
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thus Domain users may wish to have a different <literal>HOME</literal> in the
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Windows environment (on shared drive) than in /etc/passwd (on local drive).
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Note that ssh only considers /etc/passwd, disregarding <literal>HOME</literal>.
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Windows environment (on shared drive) than in Cygwin (on local drive).
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Note that ssh only considers the account information as retrieved by
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getpwnam(3), disregarding <literal>HOME</literal>.
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</para>
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</answer></qandaentry>
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<para>Your .bashrc is read from your home directory specified by the HOME
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environment variable. It uses /.bashrc if HOME is not set. So you need
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to set HOME (and the home dir in your /etc/passwd entry) correctly.
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to set HOME (and the home dir in your passwd account information) correctly.
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</para>
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</answer></qandaentry>
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<question><para>Why doesn't <literal>chmod</literal> work?</para></question>
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<answer>
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<para>The most common case is that your <literal>/etc/passwd</literal>
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or <literal>/etc/group</literal> files are not properly set up. If
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<literal>ls -l</literal> shows a group of <literal>mkpasswd</literal>
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or <literal>mkgroup</literal>, you need to run one or both of those
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commands.
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</para>
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<para>If you're using FAT32 instead of NTFS, <literal>chmod</literal>
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will fail since FAT32 does not provide any permission information.
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You should really consider converting the drive to NTFS with
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sure you're running bash elevated.
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</para>
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<para>
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If "cyg_server" is not already in <literal>/etc/passwd</literal>, add it
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using <literal>mkpasswd</literal>. Make sure all domain accounts which are
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supposed to be able to logon via ssh are in <literal>/etc/passwd</literal>.
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Also make sure that all important domain groups are in
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<literal>/etc/group</literal>. If in doubt, call
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</para>
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<screen>
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$ mkpasswd -l -d your_domain > /etc/passwd
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$ mkgroup -l -d your_domain > /etc/group
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</screen>
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<para>
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Then run ssh-host-config. Answer all questions so that "cyg_server" is
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used to run the service. When done, check ownership of
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<sect1 id="ov-new1.7"><title>What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7</title>
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<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.32"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.31 to 1.7.32</title>
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<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
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<listitem><para>
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Introduce reading passwd/group entries directly from SAM/AD, thus allowing
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to do without /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Introduce /etc/nsswitch.conf
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file to configure passwd/group handling.
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</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.31"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.30 to 1.7.31</title>
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<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
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mount points. The Cygwin DLL supports user specific fstab files.
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These are stored in the directory <filename>/etc/fstab.d</filename>
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and the name of the file is the Cygwin username of the user, as it's
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stored in the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file. The structure of the
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created from the Windows account database or stored in the
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<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file (see
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<xref linkend="ntsec-mapping"></xref>). The structure of the
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user specific file is identical to the system-wide
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<filename>fstab</filename> file.</para>
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