Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-developers-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin-developers=delorie DOT com AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-developers-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin-developers/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
To:	cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: POSIX and uid_t resp. gid_t
References:	<199909132129 DOT XAA25648 AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de>
	<37DD8D8D DOT CADD9D3C AT vinschen DOT de>
Mime-Version:	1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106)
From:	Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date:	03 Oct 1999 16:53:09 +0900
In-Reply-To:	Corinna Vinschen's message of Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:49:33 +0200
Message-ID:	<s1svh8oaniy.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>
Lines:	16
X-Mailer:	Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34

>>> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:49:33 +0200
>>> Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de> said:

> The real problem is the existence of the NT SID, which isn't
> transparently reducable to an UX UID or GID. If we find a method,
> the problem would be solved.

Would you like to use the GCOS field in the passwd file ?
This field can have any comma separated subfields after the
user's full name. So it can have all components included in SID
as shown below:
fujieda::1002:513:Kazuhiro Fujieda,5,15,6D20806B,69505750,7B205C01,3EA:/Home/fujieda:/bin/bash
____
  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

- Raw text -