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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Getting windows groups to be recognised by cygwin.
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:13:28 -0000
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----Original Message----
>From: Salden
>Sent: 17 March 2005 16:00

> I have a user configured in the passwd file and all of the groups they
> are a memeber of in the group file.  It seems that cygwin only recognises
> this user's default group assigned in the passwd file.  when I type
> "groups" this is the only one displayed although in windows this user
> belongs to multiple. Is there some trick to getting this to work?  I also
> have these group entries added to the passwd file as well.


  The /etc/passwd and /etc/groups files under cygwin don't have the same
format as they do under unix/linux and you aren't very likely to succeed if
you try and create them manually from scratch.  Use the "mkpasswd" and
"mkgroup" utilities to create them, like you were told to.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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