[Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with 'ntsec']

[Garry Heaton]

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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