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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:36:36 -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']
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OK.  I think you misinterpreted this example.  It wasn't given to indicate 
that SIDs should be removed from the passwd file.  It was written before 
mkpasswd was changed to add these to the file.  I will admit that this
example is not presented in a clear context, given the changes that are 
presented in the next section ("New since Cygwin release 1.1").  You should
assume the examples and information in this subsequent section supercedes 
the example you point to.  The first example you point to is really only 
appropriate now for those on 9x/Me platforms, where there are no SIDs.

Thanks for pointing this example out.

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At 08:50 PM 6/22/2002, Garry Heaton wrote:
>The example given is from one of Corrin's files:
>
>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-FILES
>Example 1. /etc/passwd
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>>> At 06:00 PM 6/21/2002, Garry Heaton wrote:
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>>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.
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>>> 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.
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