On Dec 2 10:25, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Dec 2 12:50, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Since I do not want to update '/etc/passwd' each time the SID changes > > > > (sysprep deployment for example), I wanted to know if I can modify my > > > > /etc/passwd like this: > > > > > > > > Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:544:544:U-Administrator,S-1-5-32-544:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash > > > > > > > > Or assign any other well know SID to the user ? S-1-5-18 ? > > > > > > > > Sshd seems to work well, but does it have any side effects on cygwin and > > > > windows? > > > > > > > > > You can hurt your /etc/passwd as you like as long as it works. It > > > won't affect native Windows apps usually, unless you make some bad > > > > So having the same SID for the user and unix group won't make cygwin (and > > windows) go crazy ? > > AFAIK, Windows groups are actually compound users.
Huh?!? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
