Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue May 6 13:01:00 GMT 2014
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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