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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:01:18 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Finding man pages
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In-Reply-To: <ug0h3y3ba.fsf@multiline.com.au>; from guyw@multiline.com.au on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:11:21AM +0800

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:11:21AM +0800, Guy Worthington wrote:
> I'm having difficulty understanding CYGWIN security, so I'd really

Cygwin security is POSIX security. The underlying system is NT security.
It's interaction is described in detail in

http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

> like some pointers as to why this would happen.  I'm logged on as a
> member of the administrator group, my password file is:
> 
> Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> Administrator::500:513:,S-1-5-21-789336058-1580436667-1708537768-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/sh
> Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-789336058-1580436667-1708537768-501:/home/Guest:/bin/sh
> guyw::1000:513:Guy Worthington,S-1-5-21-789336058-1580436667-1708537768-1000:/home/guyw:/bin/sh
> 
> my group file is:
> 
> unknown::500:544::/home/unknown:/bin/sh

How did you create that group file? It looks like a 9x group file.
Use mkgroup -l > /etc/group.

Corinna

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