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Re: Getting windows groups to be recognised by cygwin.
Sorry I didn't elaborate. I have followed the methods in the documentation.
The only thing I have manually edited was the primary group id in the passwd
file. Whichever id I set it to, I assume that group but none of the others
I am a member of in the windows config.
"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote in message
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> ----Original Message----
>>From: Salden
>>Sent: 17 March 2005 16:00
>
>> I have a user configured in the passwd file and all of the groups they
>> are a memeber of in the group file. It seems that cygwin only recognises
>> this user's default group assigned in the passwd file. when I type
>> "groups" this is the only one displayed although in windows this user
>> belongs to multiple. Is there some trick to getting this to work? I also
>> have these group entries added to the passwd file as well.
>
>
> The /etc/passwd and /etc/groups files under cygwin don't have the same
> format as they do under unix/linux and you aren't very likely to succeed
> if
> you try and create them manually from scratch. Use the "mkpasswd" and
> "mkgroup" utilities to create them, like you were told to.
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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