Greetings, Bill Stewart! >> What is a "typical" order?!? >> >> If you login locally to a domain member machine the default domain is >> the logon domain of this machine. If that's not what you want you have >> to choose the logon domain of your account explicitely, even if it's the >> local machine SAM. Windows will not try to find the user name locally >> if you didn't chose it explicitely. You get "The user name or password >> is incorrect. Try again" instead. >> >> The only exception I'm aware of is the "Administrator" account, at least >> in Windows 10.
> Here's a real-world scenario you might not have considered... What is your nsswitch configuration, yet again?… > I have a local account named "Admin" on my computer I use for > administrative tasks. > My computer is a member of a medium-side domain (about 25000 users), > and at some point in the past an admin created a group named "Admin" > that I didn't even know existed. > This means that when I test getent using the name "Admin", Cygwin > finds the domain group: > PS C:\> getent -w passwd admin > admin:nnnnnnnn:DOMAINNAME\admin:S-1-5-21-nnnnnnnnnn-nnnnnnnnn-nnnnnnnnn-nnnnnn > I get that this is by design, but .NET finds the local account first, > which is what I was expecting: > PS C:\> $name = [Security.Principal.NTAccount] "admin" > PS C:\> $sid = $name.Translate([Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]) > PS C:\> $sid.Translate([Security.Principal.NTAccount]) > Value > ----- > COMPUTERNAME\Admin > Hence the question. > Regards, > Bill > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, February 16, 2019 3:56:41 Sorry for my terrible english...
