Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes:
This doesn't happen if you install the snapshot by the method suggested
in the FAQ:
http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.snapshots
Or just make a package out of the snapshot and then install it via setup:
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On May 8 19:17, Robert Pendell wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I created a new snapshot on http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which
introduces the following behaviour, which is a bit less intrusive:
If a local account is connected to a Microsoft Account, the
On May 7 16:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And here's a problem which I'm not sure how to solve at all:
When calling the latest mkpasswd, the primary group of the local
user account backing the Microsoft Account will
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 16:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And here's a problem which I'm not sure how to solve at all:
When calling the latest mkpasswd, the primary group of the local
On 5/8/2014 7:17 PM, Robert Pendell wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 16:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And here's a problem which I'm not sure how to solve at all:
When calling the latest
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote:
On 5/8/2014 7:17 PM, Robert Pendell wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 16:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And here's a
On May 6 14:22, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 6 13:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Other than that, I'm open to discuss the necessity(?) to override
the primary group by default. But, in fact, I'm not sure this really
makes sense. Linux
On 6.5.2014 15:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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
On May 7 13:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I toyed around with the Microsoft Account a bit more. And here's why
the primary group SID being identical to the user SID is not a good
idea:
Security checks.
For instance:
$ echo $USER
VMBERT8164+local_000
$ screen
Directory
On May 7 14:26, vlado99 wrote:
On 6.5.2014 15:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 6 14:22, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Windows, users and groups are identified not by uid/gid, but by
their SID. The SID is a unique value, but other than that, a SID can
be a user or a group and in lots of cases Windows doesn't care.
A
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
I toyed around with the Microsoft Account a bit more. And here's why
the primary group SID being identical to the user SID is not a good
idea:
Security checks.
For instance:
$ echo $USER
VMBERT8164+local_000
$ screen
Directory
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 13:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I toyed around with the Microsoft Account a bit more. And here's why
the primary group SID being identical to the user SID is not a good
idea:
Security checks.
For instance:
$ echo $USER
VMBERT8164+local_000
$
On May 7 17:53, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
I toyed around with the Microsoft Account a bit more. And here's why
the primary group SID being identical to the user SID is not a good
idea:
Security checks.
For instance:
$ echo $USER
On May 7 10:05, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I toyed around with the Microsoft Account a bit more. And here's why
the primary group SID being identical to the user SID is not a good
idea:
Security checks.
For instance:
$ echo $USER
VMBERT8164+local_000
On May 7 16:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 7 17:53, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
I toyed around with the Microsoft Account a bit more. And here's why
the primary group SID being identical to the user SID is not a good
idea:
Security checks.
On May 7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
And here's a problem which I'm not sure how to solve at all:
When calling the latest mkpasswd, the primary group of the local
user account backing the Microsoft Account will *still* be None.
The reason is that the local
On May 6 14:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
- Alternatively, change the primary group in the Windows SAM, as
described in the document attached to this mail. It's the latest
version of the preliminary documentation of the new account handling
in Cygwin. See the chapter Cygwin user
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:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
But, here's the deal. I eventually gave up and created a Microsoft
Account on my W8.1 machine. And this was definitely the right thing to
do, for a couple of reasons:
- For a start, it uncovered a case-sensitivity bug in my new SAM/AD
account code.
- In my case
On May 6 13:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Other than that, I'm open to discuss the necessity(?) to override
the primary group by default. But, in fact, I'm not sure this really
makes sense. Linux systems default to creating a user-specific group
account and using that
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On May 6 13:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Other than that, I'm open to discuss the necessity(?) to override
the primary group by default. But, in fact, I'm not sure this really
makes sense. Linux systems default to creating a user-specific group
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