Windows to Cygwin username mapping: Domain before local account when duplicate name?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-02-15 13:59, Bill Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:43 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> More specific as the original text?  I'm hard pressed to accomplish
>> that.  Take note of the "domain member machine" property.
> I think I see the problem. The list I posted (above the one you are
> apparently referring to) has the search in a different order.
> The section that starts with "Let's discuss the SID<=>uid/gid mapping
> first. Here's how it works." states this order:
> * Well-known SIDs in the NT_AUTHORITY domain of the S-1-5-RID type
> * Other well-known SIDs in the NT_AUTHORITY domain (S-1-5-X-RID)
> * Other well-known SIDs
> * Logon SIDs
> * Accounts from the local machine's user DB (SAM)
> * Accounts from the machine's primary domain
> * Accounts from a trusted domain of the machine's primary domain
> In this list, local machine accounts are listed before domain accounts.
> Underneath that, there's a second section with examples that starts
> with "Now we have a semi-bijective mapping..." that has this order:
> * Well-known and builtin accounts will be named as in Windows:
>   "SYSTEM", "LOCAL", "Medium Mandatory Level", ...
> * If the machine is not a domain member machine, only local accounts
> can be resolved into names, so for ease of use, just the account names
> are used as Cygwin user/group names:
>   "corinna", "bigfoot", "None", ...
> * If the machine is a domain member machine, all accounts from the
> primary domain of the machine are mapped to Cygwin names without
> domain prefix:
>   "corinna", "bigfoot", "Domain Users", ...
> while accounts from other domains are prepended by their domain:
>   "DOMAIN1+corinna", "DOMAIN2+bigfoot", "DOMAIN3+Domain Users", ...
> * Local machine accounts of a domain member machine get a Cygwin user
> name the same way as accounts from another domain: The local machine
> name gets prepended:
>   "MYMACHINE+corinna", "MYMACHINE+bigfoot", "MYMACHINE+None", ...
> * If LookupAccountSid fails, Cygwin checks the accounts against the
> known trusted domains. If the account is from one of the trusted
> domains, an artificial account name is created. It consists of the
> domain name, and a special name created from the account RID:
> In the second list, it says domains are first before the local machine.
> I was assuming the first section is an orderly sequence of searching,
> since that's usually how Windows works.
> The second section with the examples seems to be a different order,
> and would seems to be the order Cygwin actually uses.
> I was just wondering if that's by design or by accident, since it's
> different from the typical order.

What it says is that an unprefixed name in a domain defaults to the name as if
prefixed by the primary domain, so if you want the local SAM entry on a domain
machine ($USERDOMAIN != $COMPUTERNAME), you must prefix the name with the local
machine name followed by "+".

Should the local machine name provided be $COMPUTERNAME or $HOSTNAME?

Windows normally allows "." to be used to refer to the local machine name in a
domain context - can anyone confirm or deny whether this works in Cygwin or with
getent?

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