Re: sshd: solution to the SID change problem ?

[Ludovic Drolez <ldrolez at linbox dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  2 12:50, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Since I do not want to update '/etc/passwd' each time the SID changes 
> > (sysprep deployment for example), I wanted to know if I can modify my 
> > /etc/passwd like this:
> >
> > Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:544:544:U-Administrator,S-1-5-32-544:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> >
> > Or assign any other well know SID to the user ? S-1-5-18 ?
> >
> > Sshd seems to work well, but does it have any side effects on cygwin and 
> > windows?
>
>
> You can hurt your /etc/passwd as you like as long as it works.  It
> won't affect native Windows apps usually, unless you make some bad

So having the same SID for the user and unix group won't make cygwin (and 
windows) go crazy ?

Cheers,

--
Ludovic DROLEZ


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