X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:15:59 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Virtual Users Message-ID: <20120712161559.GD3406@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <17316210.20120712155750@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Jul 12 11:52, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Florian Hager! > > > >> I need to create a virtual user,but how? > > > > First question whould be "why", not "how". > > > >> I've already researched on this topic,and it seems you can only 'add' > >> a Windows User to CygWin. > >> But as I'm using CygWin on USB,and so there are always different users > >> as soon as i plug it in,I need to make a virtual user in CygWin. > > > > One doesn't link to another. Sorry. Need more elaboration. > > > >> So,how can this be done? > > > >> If there's no way using CygWin,is there a way to add the needed > >> data(passwd,etc.) manually? > > > > Why? > > I understand the why; the OP needs a common user to move between PC > with the USB data. The easiest solution I can think of would be to > set Cygwin to always run as administrator but is the administrator SID > always equal between various systems? No, only the RID is the same. The SID always consists of the system or AD SID, plus a RID which is always 500 for the builtin admin account. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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