On 11/25/20, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed Nov 25, 2020 at 2:08 AM CET, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: >> Hi Riccardo, >> >> Interesting consideration. I didn't know that. > I didn't know that either until I tried to deploy WireGuard on a laptop > yesterday! It seems not to be documented anywhere. > > The group has been around since Windows XP afaik, however I have no idea > whether the associated licesing chicanery has also been around that long. > >> >> Can you not add that group manually need be? > I'm not an expert on Windows, but a quick lookup on the net suggests you > cannot create a local group with a specific SID.
I'm not convinced this is the case. We're talking about a local group. Surely there's some on-disk representation of available groups and associations, no? This line of inquiry needs to be fully exhausted before we even consider alternatives. Has Microsoft documented this limitation?
