Greetings, Bill Stewart! > 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. No. > (a) Is this correct? No. > (b) Is there a particular reason this order was chosen (instead of > local first, then domain, i.e., the usual Windows order)? No. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, February 19, 2019 20:11:34 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
