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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:34:43 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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kiwhan chung wrote: 

> Igor,

> Thank you for replying. Appending ' mkgroup -d' output did not help at 
> all. I think I need to explain a bit. The group and mkpasswd files are 
> modified by me in vain attempt to get the group ownership sync. It 
> obviously did not solve my problem.

You can see the group SID of a file with the command
strace ls your_filename | fgrep SID

(except in old versions of Cygwin)

That will show you what SID is missing in /etc/group

Pierre

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