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--On 21 April 2006 17:18 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> You should see the RIDs in big installations with > 100.000 users...

[...]

> You didn't have a look into http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
> lately, I assume.  The RID is mentioned right at the start. ;-)

I did not see any mention of 10000 there but 'mkpasswd -l -c' offers me an 
entry with a uid that is my 6-digit RID plus 10000.

-- 
Owen Rees
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK



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