On Aug 17 10:47, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Now, since them have been created by setup-1.7.exe (called from > Start/Run), I would expect that, after the changes 513 --> 544 etc. in > /etc/passwd, they belong to Administrators etc. (as the do in Cygwin-1.5 > and for the other files in 1.7). Evidently, my logic, here, is wrong.
Setup-1.7 creates the files with POSIX-like permissions and other group membership. Other than that, changing /etc/passwd does obviously not change the actual group membership of a file. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
