Re: Setup.exe (v2.609) Primary Group Problem

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 17 08:04, Matt Rice wrote:
> Matt Rice wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Dec  9 14:14, Matt Rice wrote:
>>>> My understanding was that when I ran setup.exe, new files would have
>>>> my primary group (the way I had it set up in /etc/passwd). I was eager
>>>> to try it out since the current stable version of setup.exe
>>>> (v2.573.2.3) would always use "users" as the group.  However, once I
>>>> upgraded and checked out the permissions on the updated items, they
>>>> all had a group of ???????? (-1).  Did I assume or do something wrong?
>>>
>>> Yes.  Setup.exe is a native Win32 application, not a Cygwin application.
>>> It doesn't know about the settings in /etc/passwd.  Thus it uses your
>>> primary Windows group.
>>>
>>>
>>> Corinna
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply. I thought it would be possible for setup.exe 
>> to
>> read /etc/passwd. My user name is part of a domain so I don't have a way 
>> of
>> changing my primary group (to the local admins group anyway). Anyway, I 
>> had to
>> go back to using cygwin 1.5 anyway because of similar problem to the 
>> problem
>> from this thread (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-11/msg00083.html, 
>> save XP
>> SP3 instead of Vista). I'm guessing there's no workaround for the desired
>> install group for either 1.5 or 1.7's setup?
>>
>> - Matt
>>
> Sorry for mailing twice, I never got a response.  Is there a workaround for 
> getting the default install group to be what I want it to be?

I don't understand why a later chgrp doesn't provide what you need.


Corinna

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