Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 20 11:58, Tim Magee wrote:
Now then,
Since Cygwin 1.7.34 dropped, mkpasswd has been problematic for us. Our
problem is with the way user names pulled from outside the primary domain
get decorated. My question is: will there ever be a way to tell
mkpasswd/mkgroup "make <some non-primary domain> the one whose users get
undecorated names"?
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I'm not planning this. The idea is that mkpasswd/mkgroup create account
names compatible with the "db"-based accounts and everyhing else is left
to post-creation manipulation.
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I never quite managed to understand this -- as my pw/grp files on
my client machines were already in sync with my domain setup and
worked as it would in a real Win Domain (i.e. Domain applied when I signed
into a machine that wasn't the domain controller and was using domain
credentials). If I logged into a machine with a local account, there has never
been a domain name to have to bother with -- so for me user-logins were prefixed
with the domain only when they were in a domain.
This has been the way windows has worked for as long as I've run a domain
server --
if a local machine is not in a domain, then it's username-only, but if it is
in a domain, then I'd need to type-or-add the local-machine name to NOT login
via the domain creds.
For local accounts, the RID==the UID, for domain accounts the RID==the UID on
the domain controller.
Do I understand that cygwin is no longer compatible with window's (and samba's)
naming convention? That would be a pain.
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