Greetings, L A Walsh! > I don't think I explained things clearly.
> On 2019/07/06 02:06, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> I guess I don't know how to modify an entry to either 1-rename it, or >>> 2 add the new entry. >> >> You don't. >> If you want to change name for display purposes, look into nsswitch.conf and >> associated documentation. > --- > My machine's GUID changed. This file has entry for userX > on the old machine-GUID. UserX also exists on the new machine GUID. > So I renamed the old entry to UserXold so I could find all the places > where the old GUID is referenced then change it to the machine's new guid. > I'm not having cygwin create new groups or whatever, but trying to replace > references to this Userid in the machine's old GUID and replace them with > reference to the Uid with the machine's new GUID. > if it was the main group, I'd just use find to locate instances of old > and do chgrp to change ownership to new. However, this is a group entry > in an acl list -- so I need to change the name of 1 entry in the acl list. >> >> It should, but I strongly suggest to avoid using it outside Cygwin directory >> tree to maintain maximum interoperability with Windows programs. > --- > No problem. my cygwin directory is at 'C:\', where it > has been since WinXP... (:^|) THAT is a problem. A big problem. >> >> getent passwd >> getent group > --- > those don't display GUID/UUIDs, but *nix user+group ids. Try it sometime. They do. > I wanted to see the windows guid associated with an identity. > Since the one I was looking for was a well-known-id I found it, but > in non-well-known cases,...? Set nsswitch.conf to: passwd: db group: db db_enum: all then check `getent passwd` -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, July 6, 2019 17:11:57 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
