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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin


Hi Corinna,

>> What I meant was:
>>
>> The output of 'id' in my "regular setup" shows:
>>
>> @@# id
>> uid=1003(Henri) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users)
>>
>> The output of 'id' in the "test setup" shows:
>>
>> $ id
>> uid=1003(Henri) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),0(root),545(Users),4(+INTERACTIVE),\
>> 11(+AuthenticatedUsers),4095(CurrentSession),66048(+LOCAL)
>>
>> To me the second output is different - but perhaps it is not.
>
>It shows groups which are present in your user token, but which are
>not in your /etc/group file.

Now that the XP bug is out of the way ... I would like come back to the change in
the output of 'id'.

Obviously, everything after '545(Users),' in the output of 'id' are "well-known"
concepts (Windows) to you (but, not to me) ...

... and I know Cygwin is not Linux/Unix ...

But as an Unix adept, I do not really care about the stuff after '545(Users),' in
the output of 'id', especially in case of a passwd file and a group file.

To me the stuff after '545(Users),' is ... well, superfluous (most certainly, most
of the time).

Perhaps other users think likewise ...

Henri


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