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Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)


On May  6 14:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> - One account in the user token's group list is a special SID for a
>   user(!) account which apparently connects your local account with the
>   Microsoft Account.  Here's the output from Windows' own `whoami' tool:
> 
>     MicrosoftAccount\testuser@foobar.de  User  S-1-11-96-3623454863-58364-18864-2661722203-1597581903-2673650909-3269597714-2381787221-1144632321-4110357092 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
> [...]
> - The maximum length of a netbios domain name is defined as DNLEN
>   in lmcons.h.  DNLEN is 15.  The new domain name "MicrosoftAccount"
>   has a length of 16.  Cygwin uses buffers based on DNLEN :-P

Btw.

Does anybody here use a Microsoft Account on a non-English Windows system?
If so, I'd like to see the output of

  /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/whoami /groups | grep S-1-11-

What I'm especially interested in is, if the domain name,
"MicrosoftAccount" is localized or not.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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