Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/02/23:04:08
I am not that familiar with how mkgroup -l gets the local groups, but
check the source. Maybe there is a file on the machine that mkgroup
looks at, and you could "trick" it to look at the file you get from
Supervisor. Of course, I am conjecturing, but it would make sense that
the groups are stored in a file.
But without installing cygwin on the PDC, it doesn't sound good. Are you
sure your fascist IT people won't let you install cygwin (doesn't
require a reboot, won't crash the system) run mkgroup -l >>
/cygdrive/a/group and take the floppy disk and then uninstall cygwin? :-)
HTH,
Peter
Matt.Wilkie wrote:
>>If you want local groups, you should use mkgroup -l. You might be
>>able to use mkgroup -l remotely (via rsh or rlogin etc) but you
>>shouldn't even expect it to do that (the local groups on Supervisor
>>are NOT local to Foreman). It isn't automated, but you could just
>>cat the entries from Supervisor's /etc/group (done with mkgroup -l)
>>to Foreman's /etc/group.
>>
>
> Unfortunately not an option since I don't control the PDC and am
> not allowed to install Cygwin on it. The only reason I have the
> Domain Admin password is so I can add/remove users from certain
> groups.
>
>
>>Just because NT confuses local and domain groups, doesn't mean that
>>cygwin should try to make the same mistake, ergo you shouldn't expect
>>cygwin to act like NT, it should act like UNIX.
>>
>
> I can see the point, and agree.
>
>
>>I think John is correct here, mkgroup -d should ONLY give groups from
>>the domain, if it gets local groups too that would just be
>>contrary to the intended behavior.
>>
>
> What about 'mkgroup -d DOMAIN -l' extracting the local groups from
> the domain server?
>
> I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to avoid having to
> have to create seperate user accounts just for my machine.
>
> ttfn,
>
> -matt
>
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