cywin and changing NT (AD) Domains

[Larry Hall]

At 09:14 PM 7/28/2004, you wrote:
>I have heard that cygwin has ties to the SID of each user. Shortly, our group is
>moving from one NT Active Directory Domain to another. Is this going to cause
>problems with cygwin installed on those machines? If so, what are the problems
>and how do I get around them?


Assuming that the SID for domain users aren't changing as a result of the 
"move", there should be no problems.  Otherwise, you may need to regenerate
your '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files so that the users and groups listed
in them have the proper "new" SIDs.  You may need to change the ownership 
of files your "previous" SID owned.  Other than that, I can't see much of
a problem.  And of course this doesn't affect any local users your machine
might have.  But I'd be really surprised if you had to do any of this since
changing SIDs of a user as part of this "move" would affect Windows as much,
if not more than, Cygwin.  Such disruption seems unnecessary and 
counter-productive.  



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