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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:54:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: BUG in /etc/pinforc (Attn: pinfo maintainer)
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Hi, Joshua,
>
> Every time I run pinfo, I get the following message:
>
> Security warning: Unable to get GID of group called: nobody
>
> Looking in /etc/pinforc, I see
>
> SAFE-USER=nobody
> SAFE-GROUP=nobody
>
> AFAIK, "nobody" is not a standard user or group on Cygwin.  I'm guessing
> it doesn't complain about the "nobody" user only because I created one for
> running apache.
>
> I don't know what the right values would be here, but thought I'd report
> this.
> 	Igor

Whoops, should practice what I preach:

$ cygcheck -cd pinfo | grep pinfo
pinfo                0.6.8-1
$ diff /etc/pinforc.new /etc/pinforc
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pechtcha 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
$

HTH,
	Igor
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