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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:44:30 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Reply-To: pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org
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To: Jacob Kitzman <kitz AT mit DOT edu>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: group name problem
References: <loom DOT 20041001T001036-979 AT post DOT gmane DOT org> <20041001023425 DOT GA540069 AT hpn5170> <loom DOT 20041001T162121-196 AT post DOT gmane DOT org>
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Jacob Kitzman wrote:
> 
> Pierre A. Humblet <pierre.humblet <at> ieee.org> writes:
> 
> > 
> ...
> >
> > What are the permissions of /etc/group ?
> >
> > Pierre
> 
> Permissions on /etc/group are:
> 
> $ ls -l /etc/group
> -rw-rw-r--    1 Administ None          562 Sep 30 16:57 /etc/group
> 
> I also tried the same permissions having changed group ownership to "Limited
> SSHD users", which is the group in question above, to no avail.

Could also be a mount issue.
When you are logged in as user dnr, can you cat /etc/group?
If the answer is yes, run "strace -o trace.txt id"
as user dnr (use just "id", not "id dnr"). Send us trace.txt

Pierre

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