Hi Corinna, >> Now that the XP bug is out of the way ... I would like come back to the >> change in >> the output of 'id'. >> >> Obviously, everything after '545(Users),' in the output of 'id' are >> "well-known" >> concepts (Windows) to you (but, not to me) ... > >I explained that in my mail and I already wrote >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html at one point. [snip]
Yes, yes, yes :-) I have read all that a long time ago ... >The group concept in Windows isn't much different from the group concept in >Unix, > except that Windows applications don't really care for the owning group of > objects, > typically. Agreed. [snip] >> But as an Unix adept, I do not really care about the stuff after >> '545(Users),' in >> the output of 'id', especially in case of a passwd file and a group file. >> >> To me the stuff after '545(Users),' is ... well, superfluous (most >> certainly, most >> of the time). >I don't know about you, but on my Linux box I get something like this: > > $ id > uid=500(corinna) gid=11125(vinschen) groups=11125(vinschen),33(tape), > 100(users),107(qemu),486(wireshark),1000(cvs),11126(libvirt) > >Most of the time I don't care about the supplementary groups after my >primary group either, but that doesn't mean I don't want id to print >them, nor are they unimportant. Agreed, the supplementary groups I observe on Unix are relevant to me ... I know that out of experience. The difference is, that all supplementary groups show up in the /etc/group file on my Unix box ... However, as you know, the supplementary group to which I referred above do NOT show up in my /etc/group file on Cygwin (they show up in SAM ... somewhere). ... and I do not care, as these groups are NOT relevant to me as a Cygwin-only user of the Windows operating system (using passwd and group files). Sorry, for having a different opinion on the matter. Henri -- 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
