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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:31:04 +1000 (EST)
From: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
Subject: RE: Administrator vs Administrators
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On  6 Sep, Dave Korn wrote:
>    Your policy is that the *domain user account* for a user has *local* 
>  administrative rights over that user's own pc. 

True.  I stand corrected.

>    Your policy could not conceivably under any circumstances be to give every 
>  user domain admin group membership! 

True.

>    Now re-analyse the problem! 

Igor pointed out that the system groups must not exist in /etc/passwd,
and he was correct.

Thanks,

luke


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