group ownership of files

[Larry Hall]

kiwhan chung wrote:
> Igor,
> 
> Thank you for replying.  Appending ' mkgroup -d' output did not help at 
> all.  I think I need to explain a bit.  The group and mkpasswd files are 
> modified by me in vain attempt to get the group ownership sync.  It 
> obviously did not solve my problem.


Right.  Don't do that unless you really understand what you're doing.


> 
> BTW, what do * as in 'SYSTEM:*:' and 'kiwhan:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:' mean?


See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html>.  You can safely
ignore the password entries on NT/2000/XP (is this a hint? ;-) )


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