Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Dec 9 14:14, Matt Rice wrote:
My understanding was that when I ran setup.exe, new files would have
my primary group (the way I had it set up in /etc/passwd). I was eager
to try it out since the current stable version of setup.exe
(v2.573.2.3) would always use "users" as the group. However, once I
upgraded and checked out the permissions on the updated items, they
all had a group of ???????? (-1). Did I assume or do something wrong?
Yes. Setup.exe is a native Win32 application, not a Cygwin application.
It doesn't know about the settings in /etc/passwd. Thus it uses your
primary Windows group.
Corinna
Thanks for the quick reply. I thought it would be possible for setup.exe to
read /etc/passwd. My user name is part of a domain so I don't have a way of
changing my primary group (to the local admins group anyway). Anyway, I had to
go back to using cygwin 1.5 anyway because of similar problem to the problem
from this thread (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-11/msg00083.html, save XP
SP3 instead of Vista). I'm guessing there's no workaround for the desired
install group for either 1.5 or 1.7's setup?
- Matt
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