Re: Understanding Cygwin /etc/passwd and /etc/group on W98

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:03:20AM -0700, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> On Windows 98, I'm curious why /etc/group looks like an exact copy of 
> /etc/passwd.  they both look like this:
> 
> Syhome::500:544::/home/Syhome:/bin/bash
> 
> Shouldn't /etc/group contain an entry for a group with GID of 544 to match 
> the default GID for UID 500 rather than a copy of the passwd file?  FWIU, 
> when looked at as passwd entry, this refers to a user with UID 500 and 
> default group GID 544, but as a group entry, this defines a group with GID 
> 500 having a single member UID 544.  Since there is neither a UID of 544 or 
> a GID of 500, these files don't look compatible.
> 
> I see that if I run mkgroup, I get an entry that looks valid:
> unknown::544:
> 
> but I thought setup created /etc/group by running mkgroup, so why isn't 
> that what /etc/group already contains?

Looks like somebody manually performed a `mkpasswd > /etc/group'
on your machine.

Corinna

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