Does this help shed any light? I seem to have massive cygwin permissions problems.... $ whoami mn04swbuild-svc $ groups mn04swbuild-svc /usr/bin/groups: Permission denied. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/