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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.33 | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.33 b/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.33 index 5b2c7a24d..11c99f305 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.33 +++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.33 @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ What's new: ----------- -- Introduce reading passwd/group entries directly from SAM/AD, thus allowing - to do without /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Introduce /etc/nsswitch.conf - file to configure passwd/group handling. +- Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows + user databases (local SAM or Active Directory), thus allowing to run + Cygwin without having to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. + Introduce /etc/nsswitch.conf file to configure passwd/group handling. + + For bordercase which require to use /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, + change mkpasswd/mkgroup to generate passwd/group entries compatible + with the entries read from SAM/AD. - /proc/cygdrive is a new symlink pointing to the current cygdrive prefix. This can be utilized in scripts to access paths via cygdrive prefix, even |