On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Dec 2 12:50, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Since I do not want to update '/etc/passwd' each time the SID changes > > > (sysprep deployment for example), I wanted to know if I can modify my > > > /etc/passwd like this: > > > > > > Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:544:544:U-Administrator,S-1-5-32-544:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash > > > > > > Or assign any other well know SID to the user ? S-1-5-18 ? > > > > > > Sshd seems to work well, but does it have any side effects on cygwin and > > > windows? > > > > > > You can hurt your /etc/passwd as you like as long as it works. It > > won't affect native Windows apps usually, unless you make some bad > > So having the same SID for the user and unix group won't make cygwin (and > windows) go crazy ?
AFAIK, Windows groups are actually compound users. As long as the SID you use in both /etc/passwd and /etc/group belongs to a Windows group, you should be ok. I don't know what will happen with a user's SID (this actually is a question to Corinna, since ACL and group ownership mapping happens within Cygwin). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/