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: <3D151B60.4060400@heaton6.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:50:40 +0100
From: Garry Heaton <garry AT heaton6 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
X-Accept-Language: en, en-us
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with 'ntsec']
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

The example given is from one of Corrin's files:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-FILES
Example 1. /etc/passwd


 >> 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 
shouldremove 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.
                   (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/