Win32 port

[Thiago Macieira]

Ross Burton wrote:
>> No, but you can copy the concept.
>
>The concept (iirc) is that under the cygwin "root" there is /etc/passwd
>and /etc/group, which has Window SIDs in the GECOS fields.  This is used
>to map from SIDs to UID/GIDs.  Now considering a native Windows DBus
>wont be using /etc/passwd, this is not useful.

Agreed.

The result is that the org.freedesktop.DBus interface on Windows won't 
have a method GetConnectionUnixUser. It will have a 
GetConnectionWindowsUser that returns the SID in whatever format SIDs are 
usually stored (byte arrays? strings?)

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Thiago José Macieira - thiago.macieira AT trolltech.com
Trolltech AS - Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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