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Re: Promoting cygwin system to member server
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:34:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: Promoting cygwin system to member server
- References: <01N7AZJAP67S8XW3IJ@ecr6.ohio-state.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 2 07:45, Michael T. Davis wrote:
> We have a standalone server running Windows Server 2003 SP2. We would
> like to promote it to a member server in an existing Windows domain. Will this
> affect how cygwin accounts are managed and maintained? We want to preserve
> the functionality of the existing local accounts, and be able to continue to
> manage them (add, remove, etc.) so that the users can continue to use cygwin
> (esp. the SSH server) independent of the Windows domain. (In fact, we don't
> want domain users to access the system via cygwin's SSH server, only local
> users.)
Cygwin doesn't make a difference but Windows does. The idea about
what's a local account and what's a global account is a bit different on
a domain server. However, I never did this promotion thingy of a server
into an existing domain. I don't know what willl change, but *what*
changes is Windows in the first place. If the local accounts persist,
they should be managable as usual on the machine. Guarantee? Nope.
Corinna
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