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Re: Should the group of my user be None?
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:05:02 -0500
- Subject: Re: Should the group of my user be None?
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On 11/08/2014 11:17 AM, Theodore Si wrote:
Shouldn't I be in the group with the same name of my username, like in Linux?
No. Windows isn't Linux. Of course, if you want to make a group with your
user name and add your user to that group, Windows will probably let you do
that. But that's not a convention for user accounts on Windows.
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Larry
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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