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Re: passwd edited /etc/passwd patch


On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:18:15PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> +  /* Try getting a Win32 username in case the user edited /etc/passwd */
> +  if (ret == NERR_UserNotFound)
> +  {
> +    if ((pw = getpwnam (user)))
> +      cygwin_internal (CW_EXTRACT_DOMAIN_AND_USER, pw, domain, (char *) user);

Thanks for the patch but, hmm, I think I'd prefer to look always for
the Cygwin username first.
It's unlikely and probably just an academic case but you could have
the Cygwin username user_a for the windows user user_b and vice versa.

Corinna

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