Possibly wrong Admin group ID in cygwin 1.7.34-003 (x64)

Achim Gratz Stromeko@nexgo.de
Sun Jan 4 08:33:00 GMT 2015


Ilya Dogolazky writes:
> But if I use the testing cygwin package 1.7.34-003 (available in the
> installer by clicking on cygwin package), then the group 544 doesn't
> appear anymore:
>
> Plain window: 197121 197610 545 4 66049 11 15 4095 66048 262154 401408
> Admin window: 197121 197610 0 545 4 66049 11 15 4095 66048 262154 405504
>
> Now I don't know if it's a bug, but some scripts assume that an admin
> shell can be identified by the number 544 in the output of "id -G", so
> I'm sure something is very wrong here.

Remove the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files that have been created by
the postinstall scripts or create an /etc/nsswitch.conf file that does
not use the "file" database.


Regards,
Achim.
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