Enumerating Unix users and groups from Windows

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 26 16:11, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:03:25PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > No, I have only standard Windows calls available.  Never mind, I have a
> > > > workaround.  It's slow but it's something only called very seldom so it
> > > > doesn't matter much.
> > > 
> > > Hmmm. Isn't MS-RPC "standard" windows?
> > 
> > Well, yes.  Unfortunately I have no experience with this stuff and it
> > sounds a lot of effort for something I have a working workaround for.
> > I hope that doesn't sound too lazy...
> 
> I haven't done any RPC programming under Windows so far
> either, but right now I'm deep in getting the Samba server
> side right. If you happen to dive into it, I'm sure we could
> do a lot of stuff to get the posix behaviour in cygwin a lot
> better.

Ok, I'll put that on my TODO list, but it might take some time.
Accessing the user lists is something only very seldom used, when the
user generates a new /etc/passwd of /etc/group file, so it's not *that*
high on my priority list.

What do you have in mind posix-wise?  In terms of accessing symlinks and
file information, I'd rather see something along the lines of the
Extended Attributes NFS access I described in my mail from 2008-06-23
because that would allow to get the same results on Samba and NFS shares
with only one piece of code.


Corinna