group names in /etc/passwd, ssh root login & more

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Sat Feb 8 13:59:00 GMT 2003


Uwe Mayer wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> the cygwin user guide says its a feature that groups can be the owner
> of files. can somebody tell me why this is so when you can set the
> group attributes accordingly?

Because that's how Windows works.

Max.


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