ID command returns mkgroup

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/12/2009 09:14 AM, Dexter_Michael@emc.com wrote:
> Well I am not really sure exactly what I should be seeing.  I think the
> command I ran was incorrect, also I had stopped the command from
> completing half way through.  Now if I look at me /etc/groups file there
> appears to be an entry for every single group in the company but it
> stops at G - this must be where I had hit CTRL+C to break out of the
> command.

Right.  Makes sense.

> Should my ID output be the same as when I log into a unix server here,
> or would it be different?  My cygwin is running on a Windows workstation
> so maybe it is grabbing my AD groups as opposed to my NIS groups.

The former.  Cygwin operates on Windows to create a POSIXy environment
on Windows.  It's not a Linux/UNIX VM running on Windows.

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