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Frederic Lorrain wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >[...] > > by NT/W2K. The insertion of supplementary groups in /etc/groups > > is only a help/hint for you. There's no command `newgroup' and > > there's no need for it in NT/W2K. > > > [...] > Actually, any NT4.0 users may have several groups. So, why does the > command "mkgroup" extract only the primary group of each user ? Simply because it's written to do it that way. As I mentioned, it has no additional effect to write them into /etc/groups so it's not really on top of the TODO stack. But I wouldn't dislike a patch to it... > Even if the group file is modified manually to add complementary group > to users, the > command "Id -Gn" does not return all groups. Hmm, do you have taken a newer snapshot? I have first added supplementary group support on 1/6/2000. I have just proved it and AFAICS it works as expected. > To resolve this problem we intend to rewrite the "groups" command. Is > there a best > solution ? You need not to patch anything. It will be supported by the next net release anyway. Corinna -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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