X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:36:26 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe (v2.609) Primary Group Problem Message-ID: <20081210093626.GB9557@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Dec 9 14:14, Matt Rice wrote: > My understanding was that when I ran setup.exe, new files would have > my primary group (the way I had it set up in /etc/passwd). I was eager > to try it out since the current stable version of setup.exe > (v2.573.2.3) would always use "users" as the group. However, once I > upgraded and checked out the permissions on the updated items, they > all had a group of ???????? (-1). Did I assume or do something wrong? Yes. Setup.exe is a native Win32 application, not a Cygwin application. It doesn't know about the settings in /etc/passwd. Thus it uses your primary Windows group. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/