Re: Virtual Users

Re: Virtual Users

[Florian Hager]

Dear CygWin-Team,

I need to create a virtual user,but how?

I've already researched on this topic,and it seems you can only 'add'
a Windows User to CygWin.
But as I'm using CygWin on USB,and so there are always different users
as soon as i plug it in,I need to make a virtual user in CygWin.

So,how can this be done?

If there's no way using CygWin,is there a way to add the needed
data(passwd,etc.) manually?


greetz, hagerf13

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Re: Virtual Users

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Florian Hager!

> I need to create a virtual user,but how?

First question whould be "why", not "how".

> I've already researched on this topic,and it seems you can only 'add'
> a Windows User to CygWin.
> But as I'm using CygWin on USB,and so there are always different users
> as soon as i plug it in,I need to make a virtual user in CygWin.

One doesn't link to another. Sorry. Need more elaboration.

> So,how can this be done?

> If there's no way using CygWin,is there a way to add the needed
> data(passwd,etc.) manually?

Why?


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 12.07.2012, <15:56>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: Virtual Users

[Earnie Boyd]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Florian Hager!
>
>> I need to create a virtual user,but how?
>
> First question whould be "why", not "how".
>
>> I've already researched on this topic,and it seems you can only 'add'
>> a Windows User to CygWin.
>> But as I'm using CygWin on USB,and so there are always different users
>> as soon as i plug it in,I need to make a virtual user in CygWin.
>
> One doesn't link to another. Sorry. Need more elaboration.
>
>> So,how can this be done?
>
>> If there's no way using CygWin,is there a way to add the needed
>> data(passwd,etc.) manually?
>
> Why?

I understand the why; the OP needs a common user to move between PC
with the USB data.  The easiest solution I can think of would be to
set Cygwin to always run as administrator but is the administrator SID
always equal between various systems?

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Re: Virtual Users

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 12 11:52, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > Greetings, Florian Hager!
> >
> >> I need to create a virtual user,but how?
> >
> > First question whould be "why", not "how".
> >
> >> I've already researched on this topic,and it seems you can only 'add'
> >> a Windows User to CygWin.
> >> But as I'm using CygWin on USB,and so there are always different users
> >> as soon as i plug it in,I need to make a virtual user in CygWin.
> >
> > One doesn't link to another. Sorry. Need more elaboration.
> >
> >> So,how can this be done?
> >
> >> If there's no way using CygWin,is there a way to add the needed
> >> data(passwd,etc.) manually?
> >
> > Why?
> 
> I understand the why; the OP needs a common user to move between PC
> with the USB data.  The easiest solution I can think of would be to
> set Cygwin to always run as administrator but is the administrator SID
> always equal between various systems?

No, only the RID is the same.  The SID always consists of the system or
AD SID, plus a RID which is always 500 for the builtin admin account.


Corinna

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Re: Virtual Users

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Earnie Boyd!

>>> I need to create a virtual user,but how?
>>
>> First question whould be "why", not "how".
>>
>>> I've already researched on this topic,and it seems you can only 'add'
>>> a Windows User to CygWin.
>>> But as I'm using CygWin on USB,and so there are always different users
>>> as soon as i plug it in,I need to make a virtual user in CygWin.
>>
>> One doesn't link to another. Sorry. Need more elaboration.
>>
>>> So,how can this be done?
>>
>>> If there's no way using CygWin,is there a way to add the needed
>>> data(passwd,etc.) manually?
>>
>> Why?

> I understand the why; the OP needs a common user to move between PC
> with the USB data.

You can't move "user" - the person.
If you did mean the account data, this doesn't need creation of a user
account for Cygwin needs.

> The easiest solution I can think of would be to set Cygwin to always run as
> administrator but is the administrator SID always equal between various systems?

And another question is: what is the filesystem on that mentioned USB
removable?...
For FAT drives, this would be obviously pointless.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 13.07.2012, <04:42>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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