Getting windows groups to be recognised by cygwin.

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Salden
>Sent: 17 March 2005 18:25

> Sorry I didn't elaborate.  I have followed the methods in the
> documentation. The only thing I have manually edited was the primary
> group id in the passwd file. 

  Ah, sorry, I couldn't make that out from your last post.

> Whichever id I set it to, I assume that
> group but none of the others I am a member of in the windows config.

  That's pretty badly wrong.  Hmmm, it ought to work correctly.  Does the
groups command only go wrong after you've manually edited the passwd file,
or does it even go wrong if you just use the generated passwd and groups
files without changing them at all?

> "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@XXXXXXX.XXXXX> wrote in message

 http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR 

    cheers,
      DaveK
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