Re: Getting Windows "MACHINE SID" without fork() & exec()?

Takeshi Nishimura via Cygwin <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:03:00 +0200

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On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 9:49 PM William Stewart via Cygwin
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 11:24 AM Takeshi Nishimura wrote:
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> Pass MACHINE SID around in a shell script.
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> Why do you need the machine SID?

Multiple reasons:
Automated machine identification for cluster, looking up the localised
Windows account names for builtin users, license information
gathering, ...
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