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Re: xfree problem
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>,
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:28:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: xfree problem
At 08:26 PM 7/1/2002 EDT, Harold L Hunt wrote:
>
>Pierre,
>
>> Don't worry, Cygwin won't require users to run mkpasswd or to edit passwd
>> by hand. The patch I have sent will satisfy you.
>
>Sounds good.
>
>> Just out of curiosity, could you run mkgroup -d ?
>
>Domain Users:S-1-5-21-2139319003-1153703952-439713625-513:10513:
>
>This is really interesting...
mkgroup -d >> /etc/group
or perhaps mkgroup -ld > /etc/group
should solve your problems.
Clearly cygwin must allow program to innocently setuid/gid to themselves
even without complete passwd and group files. Working on it.
Pierre