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Re: /etc/passwd emulation


Glenn Spell wrote:
> 
> On 13 Sep 1999 around  5:27AM (-0700) Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> > But, on 9x everyone is the Administrator so the fallback is
> > correct.
> 
> On my Win95 everyone is GID 100, there is no Administrator,
> and the default UID is 500 so the fallback is *not* correct.

On 9X the cygwin UID and GID are lies anyway. The UID 500 would
be Administrator on NT. IMHO we should let it as it is.

Regards,
Corinna

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