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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:03:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: Getting Windows "MACHINE SID" without fork() & exec()?
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From: Takeshi Nishimura via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 9:49 PM William Stewart via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 11:24 AM Takeshi Nishimura wrote:
>
> Pass MACHINE SID around in a shell script.
>
>
> Why do you need the machine SID?

Multiple reasons:
Automated machine identification for cluster, looking up the localised
Windows account names for builtin users, license information
gathering, ...
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Internationalization&localization dev / 大阪大学
Takeshi Nishimura <takeshi.nishimura.linux@gmail.com>

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