On Jun 21 14:22, Linda Walsh wrote: > I have two accounts on my client machine. One is m...@workstation, > the other is m...@domain. They are both me and I need to have them > be able access each other's files mostly transparently. > > As a result, in windows, I setup a group (megroup) that contains > both me and me! (@workstation/@domain) and set files to be owned by > "megroup", *argh, matey!* > > Cygwin shows them owned by "-1" (in hex) -- not a very useful > number! Is it really the case that the windows API returns -1 for > the ownership > of this file? I made sure that megroup is in the /etc/password file > (as copied from its /etc/group entry).
That won't work. The format of a /etc/group entry is different from an /etc/passwd entry. 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
