X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_MK,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BE395FC.6060800@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 05:24:28 +0100 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using cygwin with a dual boot operating system References: <4BE3250F.6080808@bopp.net> <20100506203625.GA27789@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4BE37982.8010302@gmail.com> <20100507034134.GC21258@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4BE3925C.7020808@gmail.com> <20100507035822.GD21258@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20100507035822.GD21258@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 07/05/2010 04:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:09:00AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 07/05/2010 04:41, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:22:58AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>>> On 06/05/2010 21:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>>> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:22:39PM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >>>>>> Please bear in mind that what you are attempting to do is not really >>>>>> supported, so don't be surprised if you don't get a bunch of help. >>>>> I don't see why this wouldn't be supported actually. If the 32/64 bit >>>>> systems have similar setups it should just work. >>>> But surely they'll have different and incmpatible SIDs and perms and >>>> everything? >>> True, when I do this, I do have a different version of group and passwd >>> per system. >>> >>> But, actually Corinna is contemplating something that will make that >>> unnecessary. >> So, it might just start working as-is if OP runs mkpasswd and mkgroup from >> within both 64-bit and 32-bit boot systems and concatenates the results. > > You'd have to make sure that everything was world-readable too. Won't we get lucky there, with the way that the None and Administrator groups have the same RIDs everywhere? cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple