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Re: Bug report / Cygwin prob...
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:23:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: Bug report / Cygwin prob...
- References: <4C1FD7FD.6010805@tlinx.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jun 21 14:22, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I have two accounts on my client machine. One is me@workstation,
> the other is me@Domain. They are both me and I need to have them
> be able access each other's files mostly transparently.
>
> As a result, in windows, I setup a group (megroup) that contains
> both me and me! (@workstation/@domain) and set files to be owned by
> "megroup", *argh, matey!*
>
> Cygwin shows them owned by "-1" (in hex) -- not a very useful
> number! Is it really the case that the windows API returns -1 for
> the ownership
> of this file? I made sure that megroup is in the /etc/password file
> (as copied from its /etc/group entry).
That won't work. The format of a /etc/group entry is different from
an /etc/passwd entry.
Corinna
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