Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 16:11:44 -0400 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Finding your SID (was Re: problem starting inetd as NT service) In-reply-to: <4.3.1.2.20020508102656.0267aeb0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20020508201144.GA1252@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i References: <4.3.1.2.20020508102656.0267aeb0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> [The following was delayed due to ISP problems. Sigh...] On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:30:28AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > Not necessarily. You need to be able to create a proper /etc/passwd file. > mkpasswd will do this for you normally. However, if you can find the proper > info, you can create one manually. You can find your SID (the "proper info" from above), by scanning through the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList Choose the one where ProfileImagePath contains your $USERNAME. Obviously, we should try to fix mkpasswd/mkgroup to work in these "strange" environments, if possible. But, at least the archives have a reference for the desperate now. :,) Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/