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Date:	Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:13:32 -0500
From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: multi-user file permission problems
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:04:07AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Brian Ford wrote:
> > I strongly vote for Users.
> 
> Actually, the currently proposed patch decides based on the group membership
> of the user running setup. But it might be better for this to be a choosable
> option.

It's Users when possible. It has to be one of the groups of the user running
setup. Administrators is the backup choice. It should be unusual.

I don't understand why Brian had problems this time, and not in previous installs.
Were you running setup from Cygwin, with a gid (in /etc/passwd) different from 513?

Pierre


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