Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:23:20 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug report / Cygwin prob...
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On Jun 21 14:22, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I have two accounts on my client machine.  One is me@workstation,
> the other is me@Domain.  They are both me and I need to have them
> be able access each other's files mostly transparently.
> 
> As a result, in windows, I setup a group (megroup) that contains
> both me and me!  (@workstation/@domain) and set files to be owned by
> "megroup", *argh, matey!*
> 
> Cygwin shows them owned by "-1" (in hex) -- not a very useful
> number!  Is it really the case that the windows API returns -1 for
> the ownership
> of this file?  I made sure that megroup is in the /etc/password file
> (as copied from its /etc/group entry).

That won't work.  The format of a /etc/group entry is different from
an /etc/passwd entry.


Corinna

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