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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:29:59 -0400
From: Glenn Spell <glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us>
To: cygwin-developers <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: /etc/passwd emulation
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In-Reply-To: <19990913122727.16494.rocketmail@web135.yahoomail.com>; from "Earnie Boyd" on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:27AM
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On 13 Sep 1999 around  5:27AM (-0700) Earnie Boyd wrote:

> But, on 9x everyone is the Administrator so the fallback is
> correct.

On my Win95 everyone is GID 100, there is no Administrator,
and the default UID is 500 so the fallback is *not* correct.

-glenn

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