mkpasswd - mkgroup inconsistency in W2K Professional (cron problem)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:52:56AM +0300, postin-list@mailAndNews.com wrote:
> 
> Is the generaton of mkpasswd and mkgroup correct? I wonder
> why the Administrator is put to group "none", gid 513 ?

That's correct. On stand-alone machines (no domain) all users
are in group 513 including admin. If you don't want that, you
can change it in /etc/passwd according to the documentation
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

> This relates to cron problem that I'm trying to debug, what is
> the cause of the error and how can I help to fix it?
> 
> 	//Administrator@W2KPICASSO /cygdrive/g $ cron
> 	seteuid: Not owner	

That's probably already fixed in the latest developer snapshots.

Corinna

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