Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: POSIX and uid_t resp. gid_t References: <199909132129 DOT XAA25648 AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de> <37DD8D8D DOT CADD9D3C AT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Kazuhiro Fujieda Date: 03 Oct 1999 16:53:09 +0900 In-Reply-To: Corinna Vinschen's message of Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:49:33 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 >>> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:49:33 +0200 >>> Corinna Vinschen said: > The real problem is the existence of the NT SID, which isn't > transparently reducable to an UX UID or GID. If we find a method, > the problem would be solved. Would you like to use the GCOS field in the passwd file ? This field can have any comma separated subfields after the user's full name. So it can have all components included in SID as shown below: fujieda::1002:513:Kazuhiro Fujieda,5,15,6D20806B,69505750,7B205C01,3EA:/Home/fujieda:/bin/bash ____ | AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda | HOKURIKU School of Information Science o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology