Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/18/14:37:04
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> From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com
> [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Igor
Pechtchanski
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:46 AM
> To: Julian C H Stevens
> Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: Strange group name
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Julian C H Stevens wrote:
>
> > I have installed cygwin 1.5.6(0.108/3/2) and I notice that
> the files in
> > my home directory have a group ownership of "mkgroup-l-d".
> >
> > I'm new to cygwin, and have installed it as a domain user on a
> > workstation running Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build
> 2195 Service
> > Pack 4.
> >
> > Please could someone suggest how this strange group name
> has got into my
> > /etc/group file?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Julian.
>
> Julian,
>
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.20>
explains
> this somewhat, but should be updated to say that "mkgroup-l-d" means
that
> the files are owned by a domain group that isn't in your /etc/group,
and
> that you should run "mkgroup -l -d >> /etc/group" when you're
connected to
> a domain controller to fix this. Otherwise, that group name is
harmless,
> IIRC. Perhaps Pierre or Corinna could chime in here...
> Igor
> P.S. Could you please set your mailer to wrap long lines?
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If you are a member of a domain with a huge number of groups, you can
take a short cut to figure out what mkgroup-l-d is really looking for.
I did this:
depriest AT quagmire ~
$ ls -n -l
total 40
-rw------- 1 43363 10513 8591 Feb 17 12:47 .bash_history
-rwxr-xr-x 1 43363 10513 533 Dec 10 17:48 .bash_profile*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 43363 10513 625 Dec 10 17:48 .bashrc*
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 43363 10513 4096 Jan 8 18:02 .cpan/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 43363 10513 267 Dec 10 17:48 .inputrc*
drwx------+ 2 43363 10513 0 Dec 23 11:34 .links/
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 43363 10513 0 Dec 15 13:07 .ncftp/
drwx------+ 2 43363 10513 4096 Jan 8 14:20 .ssh/
-rw------- 1 43363 10513 6020 Feb 9 15:04 .viminfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 43363 10513 205 Dec 15 13:17 .wgetrc*
depriest AT quagmire ~
$ mkgroup -d | grep 10513
Domain Users:S-1-5-21-1718497100-374411357-7473742-513:10513:
depriest AT quagmire ~
$
The '-n' lists the user names and groups as their GID/UID number. I
then used mkgroup to list all the domain groups and grep'd for the GID
listed.
Problem solved. It was looking for Domain Users.
I can just put that entry in my /etc/group file and all is good now.
See:
depriest AT quagmire ~
$ ls -l
total 40
-rw------- 1 depriest users_d 8591 Feb 17 12:47 .bash_history
-rwxr-xr-x 1 depriest users_d 533 Dec 10 17:48 .bash_profile*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 depriest users_d 625 Dec 10 17:48 .bashrc*
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 depriest users_d 4096 Jan 8 18:02 .cpan/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 depriest users_d 267 Dec 10 17:48 .inputrc*
drwx------+ 2 depriest users_d 0 Dec 23 11:34 .links/
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 depriest users_d 0 Dec 15 13:07 .ncftp/
drwx------+ 2 depriest users_d 4096 Jan 8 14:20 .ssh/
-rw------- 1 depriest users_d 6020 Feb 9 15:04 .viminfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 depriest users_d 205 Dec 15 13:17 .wgetrc*
depriest AT quagmire ~
$
I changed the display name of the group from 'Domain Users' to 'users_d'
in my /etc/group file so it would fit in the column better.
-Jason
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