Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:42:45 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /etc/group not being read Message-ID: <20021105214245.GA417051@WORLDNET> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021105121520.033b55b0@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> <5.1.0.14.2.20021105105333.01cb2b08@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> <5.1.0.14.2.20021105105333.01cb2b08@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> <5.1.0.14.2.20021105121520.033b55b0@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> <5.1.0.14.2.20021105162441.033cdfd8@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021105162441.033cdfd8@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:30:17PM -0500, James D Below wrote: > After seeing permissions and ownerships not updating properly. I stopped > the sshd service and started it back up. > > After that, the group permissions were correctly being assigned. Great. > Should I have had to restart the ssh service? No > When does cywin read /etc/group and /etc/passwd. I was imagining it to be > the manner as other unix/linux OSes. It rereads the files when they are modified. That works fine here. There have been reports of problmes with network drives, although the symptoms were different. Is your /etc on a local or a network drive? Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/