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[Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with 'ntsec']
- From: Garry Heaton <garry at heaton6 dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:50:40 +0100
- Subject: [Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with 'ntsec']
The example given is from one of Corrin's files:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-FILES
Example 1. /etc/passwd
>> At 06:00 PM 6/21/2002, Garry Heaton wrote:
>>
>Success! I've changed the user names in /etc/passwd to the customised
>versions, ie. Administrator becomes 'root' with home directory /home/root
>re-set in System. Permissions still working. This time, however, I didn't
>wipe-out the SIDs as suggested in the Cygwin online user guide.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you point to the place in the user guide that suggests that you
shouldremove the SID from /etc/passwd? FWIW, I would not recommend this
course of action for anyone looking for proper permissions handling on
NT/W2K/XP with NTFS. If some documentation suggests this, either my
recommendation or the documentation needs to adjusted.
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