On Dec 18 21:41, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > For the time being, yes. I think I documented this in > > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html. > > I've found it. > > > The windows UIs show the > > owner of a file knowning the server to fetch the user info from. Cygwin > > doesn't ATM, since the entire functionality to fetch the info is hidden > > behind the getpwXXX/getgrXXX calls, which have no idea where this call > > is coming from. For the time being, create /etc/passwd and /etc/group > > entries for your other machines. Patches welcome to extend the getpw/ > > getgr functionality to fetch user info from non-local/non-AD machines. > > That doesn't really work, I'm afraid. If I do this, the UID get mapped > to the same space and stomp all over each other. What is my user on one > machine is cyg_server on another and sshd on the third. When I remove > the entries in the passwd file then I'm back to somwhow knowing that > this SID comes from another machine, but no way to know which. Even for > those machines where my RID is the same, this gets mapped to > Unknown+User and Unknown+Group. Somehow I'd need to be able to specify > a shift for each machine in order to tell them apart in the passwd/group > files, it seems.
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