special install

[Peter Rehley]

On Sep 23, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Peter Rehley wrote (heavily [snip]ped):
>
>> 3) passwd file.  If the same users exist on each machine, then this 
>> isn't an
>> issue.
>
> This is *wrong* (and is the main reason I'm sending this mesage,
> actually).  WinNT/2k/XP machines have a notion of "SID" that they give 
> to
> each user.  That SID is different on different machines, even if the 
> user
> name is the same.  User SIDs are stored in /etc/passwd, so an 
> /etc/passwd
> from one machine will be useless on another.

D'oh.  I knew this.
>
>> However domain users would need to be added.  This could be done
>> before zipping cygwin directory.
>
> Again, wrong.  Domain user SIDs are actually the same across the 
> domain,
> so the domain users in /etc/passwd will be ok.
>
Actually, I still think this would be ok for domain users.  My point 
being that you need to add domain users at some point since the default 
setup doesn't create domain users.  However, the suggestions you and 
other have given regarding the creation of the passwd file is the right 
way to go.

Enjoy,
Peter
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