From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can you modify how Cygwin prepends domain name to username?
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160909104727.GF3860@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGedhde-i6zy481AQUvLstp93x-=UNG210ff1po3KvFB57EzMg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Carl,
Please don't https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
Thank you.
On Sep 9 09:39, Carl wrote:
> Hi Linda,
>
> On 9 September 2016 at 05:44, Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org> wrote:
> > Carl wrote:
> > ADUNSW+root:*:2149521262:2147484161:U-ADUNSW\root,
> > S-1-5-21-1140405718-358989843-3445714273-2037614:/home/root:/bin/bash
> > ---
> > Where does the '+' come from? Is that in Win10 or some newer domain
> > control software?
>
> The plus character is the default separator for mkpasswd.
>
> In the help for it (mkpasswd -h), you will see
>
> -S,--separator char For -L use character char as domain\user
> separator in username instead of the default '+'.
No, no. Mkpasswd uses the '+' only by default because Cygwin uses it.
The full answer to the question is in the docs:
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping
Corinna
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-09 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-08 12:14 Carl
2016-09-08 12:26 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-08 13:17 ` Carl
2016-09-08 19:44 ` Linda Walsh
2016-09-08 23:39 ` Carl
2016-09-09 4:28 ` Linda Walsh
2016-09-09 10:47 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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