Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

[marco atzeri]

On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote:
> On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote:
>>
>> a workaround was already available on first link you provided
>>
>>    chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh
>>
>
> I had tried this earlier running the chgrp.exe, but it threw an error
> saying unknown group 'Users'. I assume this is because when chgrp.exe
> is located outside of the default cygwin directory, it doesn't know
> where to find the group file. I also attempted to create a separate
> file where i'd dump the contents of my private key into, but that file
> seems to also be afflicted by this permissions problem of having 660
> with no group set.

have you a /etc/group file ?


> Chaz
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