Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed May 7 12:43:00 GMT 2014


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 the domain name,
> >"MicrosoftAccount" is localized or not.
> Hi,
> 
> I have Windows 8.1 Pro Slovak on virtual machine. If I login using
> local account, output of whoami /groups doesn't contain S-1-11-. So
> I created Microsoft Account, logged in, and run
> 
> C:\>C:\Windows\System32\whoami.exe /groups | find "S-1-11-"
> MicrosoftAccount\robin2014@outlook.sk User             S-1-11
> -96-3623454863-58364-18864-2661722203-1597581903-280192800-1280197373-3897116171
> -2313688921-3621400082 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
> 
> C:\>
> 
> But "one swallow does not make summer"! In past, there was different
> approach to localisation to different languages. For example Czech
> Windows XP had localised output of command line tools, but Slovak XP
> had localised only GUI.

Yeah, I agree.  So far we only know that the Slovakian and the German
(tested off-list) versions use non-localized versions of this fake
domain.

But nevertheless, thanks for going out of your way testing this.
Much appreciated.


Thanks,
Corinna

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