Re: POSIX permission mapping and NULL SIDs

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun 29 15:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Jun 29 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 28 18:06, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote:
> > > In any case I will use your mapping of S-1-0-65534 <-> 65534.
> > 
> > Thanks.  Do you want to add handling for this mapping to
> > pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows yourself or shall I do it?  I could
> > come up with a patch in the next couple of days.  I will prepare a
> > developer's snapshot then, so you can immediately test if it works as
> > desired.
> 
> How do we avoid name collisions?  I can easily see admins creating an
> AD account called "nobody".
> 
> Shall we fake a "WinFSP" domain such that the name is "WinFSP+nobody"?

Preliminary patch attached.


Corinna

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