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 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: References: <1C8D2082-0D88-11D9-8A2B-000D932D0448@rehley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-Id: <75965127-0D91-11D9-8A2B-000D932D0448@rehley.net> From: Peter Rehley Subject: Re: special install Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:50:37 -0700 To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i8NIqPWJ012746 On Sep 23, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Peter Rehley wrote (heavily [snip]ped): > >> 3) passwd file. If the same users exist on each machine, then this >> isn't an >> issue. > > This is *wrong* (and is the main reason I'm sending this mesage, > actually). WinNT/2k/XP machines have a notion of "SID" that they give > to > each user. That SID is different on different machines, even if the > user > name is the same. User SIDs are stored in /etc/passwd, so an > /etc/passwd > from one machine will be useless on another. D'oh. I knew this. > >> However domain users would need to be added. This could be done >> before zipping cygwin directory. > > Again, wrong. Domain user SIDs are actually the same across the > domain, > so the domain users in /etc/passwd will be ok. > Actually, I still think this would be ok for domain users. My point being that you need to add domain users at some point since the default setup doesn't create domain users. However, the suggestions you and other have given regarding the creation of the passwd file is the right way to go. Enjoy, Peter ------------------------------- A Møøse once bit my sister -- 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/