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Re: sshd: solution to the SID change problem ?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:07:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: sshd: solution to the SID change problem ?
- References: <439034F9.2020905@linbox.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
mistake which allows everybody to run under admin or even SYSTEM rights.
Just keep in mind, if something unwanted happens, it's all your fault ;-)
Corinna
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