On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:00:02PM -0800, Gupta, Sanjay wrote: > Guest@SGUPTA-LAPT ~ > $ id > uid=501(Guest) gid=513(None) groups=513(None) > > Now, if I do login to Guest user as ssh > $ ssh guest@sgupta-lapt > [...] > $ id > uid=501(Guest) gid=513(None) > groups=0(Everyone),513(None),546(Guests),547(Power > Users),545(Users),1001(ORA_DBA) > > See the difference between the id commands between the same user. One login > was done using shortcut on desktop and other is using ssh. > Any logic behind this ? > > Q2: I have read the Documentation provided by CYGWIN but was unable to find > out where the information is kept regarding groups a user has. In Unix like > system, if suppose I have a group called staff , then you can easily see the > group staff is assigned to which users by looking /etc/group file but I was > unable to find this information in CYGWIN /etc/group . My guess is CYGWIN > basically picking this information from Windows database, only Primary Group > information is kept in /etc/passwd file and secondary groups are taken from > Windows database. It is not kept in /etc/group in CYGWIN. Is my > understanding correct ?
Yes and no. It takes the groups from the process token. But it does show it to you only if it's mentioned in /etc/groups. If `ntsec' is off, it doesn't use the process token but only the information in /etc/group. However, the group list for local login isn't the same as for remote login anyway. > Q3: When logged in via ssh, if I run > $ id -Gn > None Everyone Guests Power Users Users ORA_DBA > It displays all the Primary and Secondary Groups belong to the current user. > My current user is Guest. > but when I specify > $ id -Gn Guest > None Yes, you mentioned it already twice this weekend. Could be a bug. A quick strace run didn't help, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
