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Re: Should the group of my user be None?


Thank you for your replies.

The permission of files under ~/.ssh can't be changed to 600 when their group owner is None. I have to chgrp -R Users (or Administrators, or any other group name other than None) ~/.ssh to make it possible to run chmod on them. I suppose this is a bug of cygwin on Windows 8/8.1 ?

I changed my GID in /etc/passwd from 513 to 544 to make my primary group Administrators. Now the group owner of the files are turned to ????? . Is it OK to do this?

å 11/9/2014 11:33 AM, Theodore Si åé:
Thank you for your replies.

The permission of files under ~/.ssh can't be changed to 600 when their group owner is None. I have to chgrp -R Users (or Administrators, or any other group name other than None) ~/.ssh to make it possible to run chmod on them. I suppose this is a bug of cygwin on Windows 8/8.1 ?

å 11/9/2014 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) åé:
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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