On Fri 3/3/06 9:47 +0100 Corinna wrote: --snip > > The SIDs on several hundred GB worth of files and dirs will almost all > > be from the old domain. The old domain controller will be shutdown, > > but there will be a SID history associated w/(almost) each domain user > > account and group that was in the old domain. This SID history will be > > saved on the domain controler in the new domain. > > > > So, if you run 'ls -l' in one of these directories whose files have SIDs > > from the old domain, I'm wondering if the SID history mechanism will > > work, showing the matching user or group in the new domain? > > I have no idea and no experience at all with that. Whatever happens, > there's nothing in Cygwin which knows anything about AD and its deep > mysteries, so any problems due to the SID history must be either > solved on a deeper level of the OS, or it must be solved by manual > intervention. That's what I was trying to say.
OK, thanks again Corinna. If needed, I have a method to swap in the new SIDs using a non cygwin opensource tool called setacl; I would use this to fix the SIDs on our cygwin bash and perl scripts. -- 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/
