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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:45:29 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: FW: 'id' on NT/2000
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David,

do you think the below description could become part of the FAQs?

Corinna

Colin Fine wrote:
> It didn't occur to me that it might not get this information out of Windows. Presumably /etc/passwd is created from the local user list when you install cygwin. My username is not local to the machine at all (it is a network id), so did not get put into passwd, and similarly when Stephen created an additional user he did not add it to /etc/passwd.
> 
> I think that is a gotcha, that ought to be mentioned somewhere!
>
> > id doesn't use a Windows call but only Cygwin POSIX calls. As a result
> > it needs correct settings in /etc/passwd.
> >
> > On your collegues machine:
> > Did you insert the "test" user into /etc/passwd?
> >
> > On your machine:
> > If you dual boot your machine with the same /etc directory you will have
> > another problem _if_ you are using ntsec. Both OS'es have different SIDs
> > and the same user will have different SIDs on different OSes. You will
> > have to either provide different /etc/passwd files or to change your
> > systems SID on one of the OSes so that it's equal to the SID of the
> > other system. You can for example use the NewSID tool on
> > www.sysinternals.com with a slight change (Fixed SID instead of random
> > SID).
> >
> > Corinna
> >
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