X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:06:35 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Marco Atzeri cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't start cron daemon in Cygwin 1.5.23 under WinXP SP2 In-Reply-To: <628535.80986.qm@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <628535.80986.qm@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Marco Atzeri wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: . Thanks. > > Actually the SID S-1-5-32-545 is the Users group on > > the local machine. > > If you need the SID for the Domain Users group you > > have to retrieve > > it using `mkgroup -d -g "Domain Users"', which gives > > you something > > like this: > > > > $ mkgroup -d -g 'Domain Users' > > Domain Users > > :S-1-5-21-380728306-1056519143-2954708907-513:10513: > > a related question, there is in Cygwin a utility > similar to psgetsid of Mark Russinovich ? > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psgetsid.mspx > > when we have tens of thousands of accounts in > the domain mkgroup will be busy for long time, and > usually we need a very limited subset of SID's Did you take a look at the -g flag for mkgroup (and the related -u flag for mkpasswd)? It lets you select the specific groups you want in /etc/group. Of course, if you miss any, there'll be trouble, so it might be best to just let mkgroup run overnight. :-) HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/