On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:48 PM Bill Stewart wrote: > 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
So then - just to follow up - Cygwin is for sure going to stick with "domain first" when resolving an account name that doesn't include an authority. (a) Is this correct? (b) Is there a particular reason this order was chosen (instead of local first, then domain, i.e., the usual Windows order)? Thanks, 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
