[EXTERNAL] Re: Win32 account SID lookup if user and group have the same name?

[Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]]

> It's the same SID and it's your user SID.  There can't be a group with
> the same name as a user account in the same user DB.  Each account in
> the local domain or in an AD domain has to have a unique account name.

Exactly!  Which is why we use "namegrp" (an established convention) for Windows
groups when they are "mapped" to the respective Unix groups with the name just "name".

So the user "danfsh:danfsh" on Linux would be "danfsh:danfshgrp" on Windows.

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI