On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:32 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > The section that starts with "Let's discuss the SID<=>uid/gid mapping > > first. Here's how it works." states this order: > > It doesn't state an order. It describes the mapping from SID to > uid/gid, and there's *no* order at all to it, just a description how > certain SIDs are mapped to certain uid/gid values given numerical > recipies.
Right, I assumed that it was an order. I see I was misunderstanding this. > If you login locally to a domain member machine the default domain is > the logon domain of this machine. If that's not what you want you have > to choose the logon domain of your account explicitely, even if it's the > local machine SAM. Windows will not try to find the user name locally > if you didn't chose it explicitely. You get "The user name or password > is incorrect. Try again" instead. If you are talking about logging on at a Windows machine, that's true. But IIRC this isn't what the APIs do (at least the .NET ones): If you specify a username without an authority, the APIs search the local account database first. Regards, Bill -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
