sshd: solution to the SID change problem ?
Ludovic Drolez
ldrolez@linbox.com
Fri Dec 2 14:02:00 GMT 2005
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 2 12:50, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Since I do not want to update '/etc/passwd' each time the SID changes
>>(sysprep deployment for example), I wanted to know if I can modify my
>>/etc/passwd like this:
>>
>>Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:544:544:U-Administrator,S-1-5-32-544:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
>>
>>Or assign any other well know SID to the user ? S-1-5-18 ?
>>
>>Sshd seems to work well, but does it have any side effects on cygwin and
>>windows?
>
>
> You can hurt your /etc/passwd as you like as long as it works. It
> won't affect native Windows apps usually, unless you make some bad
So having the same SID for the user and unix group won't make cygwin (and
windows) go crazy ?
Cheers,
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Ludovic DROLEZ
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