At 09:14 PM 7/28/2004, you wrote: >I have heard that cygwin has ties to the SID of each user. Shortly, our group is >moving from one NT Active Directory Domain to another. Is this going to cause >problems with cygwin installed on those machines? If so, what are the problems >and how do I get around them?
Assuming that the SID for domain users aren't changing as a result of the "move", there should be no problems. Otherwise, you may need to regenerate your '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files so that the users and groups listed in them have the proper "new" SIDs. You may need to change the ownership of files your "previous" SID owned. Other than that, I can't see much of a problem. And of course this doesn't affect any local users your machine might have. But I'd be really surprised if you had to do any of this since changing SIDs of a user as part of this "move" would affect Windows as much, if not more than, Cygwin. Such disruption seems unnecessary and counter-productive. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
