wine.inf: add a computer SID

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Aug 2 06:49:17 CDT 2006


Robert Reif <reif at earthlink.net> writes:

> This patch adds a computer SID.  A computer SID should be
> unique on a network but wine is a long way away from having
> network security working so this isn't a big issue.  You can use
> a program like NewSID (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NewSid.html)
> to change the SID.  Another option would be to generate a unique
> SID in wineprefixcreate or at install time.

That would probably be a better idea. Otherwise, by the time we start
to make use of it everybody will have the same value in their registry.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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