On Apr 3 15:12, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2023, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Mar 28 10:17, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > In particular when we cannot figure out a uid for the current user, we > > > > should still respect the `db_home: env` setting. Such a situation occurs > > > > for example when the domain returned by `LookupAccountSid()` is not our > > > > machine name and at the same time our machine is no domain member: In > > > > that case, we have nobody to ask for the POSIX offset necessary to come > > > > up with the uid. > > > > > > > > It is important that even in such cases, the `HOME` environment variable > > > > can be used to override the home directory, e.g. when Git for Windows is > > > > used by an account that was generated on the fly, e.g. for transient use > > > > in a cloud scenario. > > > > > > How does this kind of account look like? I'd like to see the contants > > > of name, domain, and the SID. Isn't that just an account closely > > > resembling Micorosft Accounts or AzureAD accounts? Can't we somehow > > > handle them alike? > > > > [...] > > > > What I _can_ do is try to recreate the problem (the report said that this > > happens in a Kudu console of an Azure Web App, see > > https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Kudu-console) by creating a new > > Azure Web App and opening that console and run Cygwin within it, which is > > what I am going to do now. > > So here is what is going on: > > - The domain is 'IIS APPPOOL'
There's a domain, so why not pass it to the called function?> > - The name is the name of the Azure Web App > > - The sid is 'S-1-5-82-3932326390-3052311582-2886778547-4123178866-1852425102' Oh well. These are basically the same thing as 1-5-80 service accounts. It would be great if we could handle them gracefully instead of special-case them in a piece of code we just reach because we don't handle them yet. Btw., one easy way out would be if we default to /home/<name> or /home/<SID> rather than "/", isn't it? Corinna
