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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:12:41 -0400
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with 
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At 03:03 PM 6/23/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:45:26AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>>Since you are so astute to point this out, please feel free to make a
>>diff against the document SGML and submit a patch.  I'm sure the
>>project's docs would benefit greatly from your expertise, and are
>>sorely in need of updating.  Since you obviously value well written
>>docs as much as I do, I'm sure this would be a pleasure for you to do.
>
>I'm sure you probably are unaware that Larry Hall has been following
>this project for longer than anyone that I know of.  He was, in fact,
>using cygwin and reading this mailing list (or one of its precursors)
>before I was.


Anyone remember B12 or B13? ;-)  Unfortunately, recently my timely following 
of this list has been severely curbed.  So I no longer respond in real time.
Many on this list probably find that a good thing. ;-) 


>So, I sincerely doubt that he needs to be chided into contributing.


True.  I will admit that the thought of supplying a quick patch to this 
doc occurred to me just after sending the response.  Anyway, attached is 
my proposed patch.

ChangeLog entry

        * ntsec.sgml: Update example 1 and 2 with SIDs.

diff -u -p -r1.5 ntsec.sgml
--- ntsec.sgml  26 Oct 2000 08:01:39 -0000  1.5
+++ ntsec.sgml  24 Jun 2002 03:06:52 -0000
@@ -264,25 +264,25 @@ English NT version.</para>
 <example>
 <title>/etc/passwd</title>
 <screen>
-everyone:*:0:0:::
-system:*:18:18:::
-administrator::500:544::/home/root:/bin/bash
-guest:*:501:546:::
-administrators:*:544:544::/home/root:
-corinna::1000:547:Corinna Vinschen:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
+Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
+SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
+Guest::501:513:Guest,S-1-5-21-746137067-1682526488-1202660629-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash
+Administrator::500:513:Administrator,S-1-5-21-746137067-1682526488-1202660629-500:/home/root:/bin/bash
+corinna::1000:513:corinna,S-1-5-21-746137067-1682526488-1202660629-1000:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
+Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
 </screen>
 </example>

 <example>
 <title>/etc/group</title>
 <screen>
-everyone::0:
-system::18:
-none::513:
-administrators::544:
-users::545:
-guests::546:
-powerusers::547:
+Everyone:S-1-1-0:0:
+SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
+None:S-1-5-21-746137067-1682526488-1202660629-513:513:
+Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544:
+Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
+Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
+Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547:
 </screen>
 </example>



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