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Re: Windows to Cygwin username mapping: Domain before local account when duplicate name?
- From: "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" <sam dot edge dot cygwin at gmx dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:31:40 +0000
- Subject: Re: Windows to Cygwin username mapping: Domain before local account when duplicate name?
- References: <CANV9t=SNfgP-CA32yfPwLv2=d0F8xtpdCT4o_wwGFGE+F3SEuA@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 14/02/2019 23:47, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Consider the case where you have a local account and a domain account
> with the same username.
>
> If you supply just the username to Windows without an authority name,
> Windows returns the local account. To get the domain account, you'd
> have to specify an authority (e.g. domain\username).
>
> It seems like Cygwin looks up the domain account first.
>
> Is this correct, or am I missing something? Is this by design?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-how explains
in more detail.
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Sam Edge
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