On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 2 10:25, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> >
> > > So having the same SID for the user and unix group won't make cygwin
> > > (and windows) go crazy ?
> >
> > AFAIK, Windows groups are actually compound users.
>
> Huh?!?
Windows groups can act as users (as far as owning files, having ACLs
associated with them, etc), which is, perhaps, what I should have said.
I'm not aware of any significant things that groups can do and users
can't, so I made the generalization above. I'd be happy to learn of the
cases which show that it's an incorrect one.
Igor
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