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Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:50:45 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why mkgroup does not list group members?
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On May 13 17:43, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The current version of the mkgroup utility does not seem to care
> about group members when generating the group file (either out of
> domain or locally).  I wonder what prevented it from using
> NetGroupGetUsers()/NetLocalGroupGetMembers() to list the group
> users after that last colon.

Because it's not necessary since the groups are in your user token
anyway, and so is extra work for no gain.


Corinna

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