Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020622202056.01ffbf40@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:27:04 -0400
To: Garry Heaton <garry AT heaton6 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with
  'ntsec']
In-Reply-To: <3D13A1EE.7080703@heaton6.freeserve.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

At 06:00 PM 6/21/2002, Garry Heaton wrote:
>Success! I've changed the user names in /etc/passwd to the customised versions, ie. Administrator becomes 'root' with home directory /home/root re-set in System. Permissions still working. This time, however, I didn't wipe-out the SIDs as suggested in the Cygwin online user guide.


Can you point to the place in the user guide that suggests that you should
remove the SID from /etc/passwd?  FWIW, I would not recommend this course of
action for anyone looking for proper permissions handling on NT/W2K/XP with
NTFS.  If some documentation suggests this, either my recommendation or the 
documentation needs to adjusted.



Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/