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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 09:49:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: Why no "World" group in Cygwin?
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From: Cedric Blancher via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 at 20:46, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On 2025-06-04 10:58, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> > Why is there no "world" group in Cygwin by default?
> > So war I've found EVERY Windows access token contains an group entry
> > for S-1-1-0 (World), which makes me wonder by Cygwin doesn't generate
> > a GID by default.
>
> It's also called Everyone on some Windows versions/editions, and does not fit
> the POSIX security model, but is used in D/ACLs for Other 007.

How would a POSIX group (i.e. getent group world) not fit into the
POSIX model? Just everyone would be member of this group...

Ced
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