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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:07:14 +0200
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On 09/23/2013 04:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, bartels!

Greetings Andrey!

>
>> By the way: SYSTEM is not a user.
> Since when?

Since Bill Gates stopped sleeping in his garage? :)

$ passwd SYSTEM
passwd: unknown user SYSTEM

Without knowing too much about Windows internals, I have always considered SYSTEM to be a context, rather than a user.

Please give me your take, if you have more info.
I am interested

- bartels.


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