On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:37:16AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > +<para> > +If a user or group is not present in <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> (or > +if a group is not present in <filename>/etc/group</filename>), it will have > +a special user/group id of -1 (which would be shown by <command>ls</command> > +as 65535). In releases of Cygwin before 1.3.20, the user/group name shown > +was '????????'. Since Cygwin release 1.3.20, the name of a user with no > +entry in <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> will be shown as `mkpasswd', and > +the name of a group not in <filename>/etc/group</filename> will be shown as > +`mkgroup', indicating the commands that should be run to alleviate the > +situation.
Weeell... that's not quite correct, unfortunately. - If the current user doesn't show up in /etc/passwd, it's *group* will be named "mkpasswd". - Otherwise, if the login group of the current user isn't in /etc/group, it will be named "mkgroup". - otherwise a group not in /etc/group will be shown as "????????" and a user not in /etc/passwd will be shown as "????????". Nevertheless, thanks for the effort :-) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
