Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:13:32 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: multi-user file permission problems Message-ID: <20030212021332.GA359255@worldnet> References: <000a01c2d22a$42f50b10$78d96f83 AT pomello> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000a01c2d22a$42f50b10$78d96f83@pomello> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:04:07AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > > I strongly vote for Users. > > Actually, the currently proposed patch decides based on the group membership > of the user running setup. But it might be better for this to be a choosable > option. It's Users when possible. It has to be one of the groups of the user running setup. Administrators is the backup choice. It should be unusual. I don't understand why Brian had problems this time, and not in previous installs. Were you running setup from Cygwin, with a gid (in /etc/passwd) different from 513? 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/