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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/12/2009 09:14 AM, Dexter_Michael AT emc wrote: >> Should my ID output be the same as when I log into a unix server here, >> or would it be different? My cygwin is running on a Windows workstation >> so maybe it is grabbing my AD groups as opposed to my NIS groups. > > The former. Cygwin operates on Windows to create a POSIXy environment > on Windows. It's not a Linux/UNIX VM running on Windows. ITYM "the latter". Grabbing the AD groups is exactly what is going on. (I'm inferring that Mike is in a heterogeneous environment with essentially separate user accounts on the Unix and Windows sides, based on YP/NIS and AD respectively.) cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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