* ntsec.xml: Small improvments.

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2014-07-30 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* ntsec.xml: Small improvments.
2014-07-30 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.xml: (ov-new1.7): Change section title.

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<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379159%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">LookupAccountName</ulink>
functions cannnot resolve the SIDs, unless they know the name of the machine
this SID comes from. And even then it will probably suffer a
"Permission denied" when trying to ask the machine for its local account.
<literal>Permission denied</literal> error when trying to ask the machine
for its local account.
</para>
<para>
Cygwin will map the account to the fake accounts "Unknown+User"/"Unknown+Group"
Cygwin will map the account to the fake accounts
<literal>Unknown+User</literal>/<literal>Unknown+Group</literal>
with uid/gid -1.
</para>
</listitem>
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</para>
<screen>
"corinna", "bigfoot", "Domain Users", ...
"corinna", "bigfoot", "Domain Users", ...
</screen>
<para>
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<para>
Otherwise we know nothing about this SID, so it will be mapped to the
fake accounts "Unknown+User"/"Unknown+Group" with uid/gid -1.
fake accounts <literal>Unknown+User</literal>/<literal>Unknown+Group</literal>
with uid/gid -1.
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
How this is done depends on your account being a domain account or a
local account. Let's start with the default. Assuming your Windows
account name is "bigfoot" and your domain is "MY_DOM". Your default
passwd entry in absence of anything I'll describe below looks like this:
account name is <literal>bigfoot</literal> and your domain is
<literal>MY_DOM</literal>. Your default passwd entry in absence of
anything I'll describe below looks like this:
</para>
<screen>
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<literal>posixAccount</literal>/<literal>posixGroup</literal> attributes per
<ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2307">RFC 2307</ulink>. These
attributes are by default available in Active Directory since Windows Server
2003 R2. They are "not set", unless utilized by the (deprecated since Server
2012 R2) Active Directory "Server for NIS" feature. The user attributes
utilized by Cygwin are:
2003 R2. They are <literal>not set</literal>, unless utilized by the
(deprecated since Server 2012 R2) Active Directory "Server for NIS" feature.
The user attributes utilized by Cygwin are:
</para>
<segmentedlist><?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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<listitem>
<para>
or enter the information into the "Comment" field of your local user entry.
or enter the information into the comment field of your local user entry.
In the <literal>Local Users and Groups</literal> MMC snap-in it's called
<literal>Description</literal>.
</para>