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Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.3


On Feb 25 07:52, Warren Young wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2015, at 2:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > - Group "None" is a local group and changing to None is not such a bright
> >  idea for domain users.  "Domain Users" may be better here,
> 
> Since the permissions on files in these directories give zero
> permissions to the group, does it really matter?  It could be
> Administrators or anything else other than the group with the same
> name as your user and give the same effect, right?

Sure, but...

> > - Group "None" is a localized group, called, e.g. "Kein" in (really
> >  really terrible) german.  Maybe that should be mentioned.  Same for
> >  "Domain Users", of course.
> 
> Thereâs a homophone in English, âkine,â an archaic word for âcattle.â :)

...the localization problem still exists.  What about chgrp `id -g'?


Corinna

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