On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:46:42AM -0000, John Morrison wrote: > > From: Chris Game > > > > In an earlier post, John Morrison wrote: > > > > [...] > > - now how do I get out of this 'None' group > > that I'm apparently in, and into 'Users' or even 'Administrators'? > > Sorry, I don't know. I'm in 'None' too.
'None' (resp. it's native version) is the name of the default group each user is in, if the machine isn't a domain member machine. Otherwise the group typically changes to (the native version of) 'Domain Users'. On non-domain machines, there's no way to change that. Your primary group is unchangeable set to 'None'. Each other group you're member of is just a supplementary group, to use a UNIX idiom here. So, to reflect the situation of a "normal" user exactly as it's given on NT, the passwd entries would look like this: Administrator:*:500:513:... admin2:*:1001:513:... user1:*:1002:513:... user2:*:1003:513:... and the related /etc/group entries: None:*:513: Administrators:*:544:Administrator,admin2 Users:*:545:Administrator,admin2,user1,user2 However, what's fixed on NT isn't necessarily fixed for Cygwin. As long as you are really a member of a group, you are allowed to change your primary group membership to that group in /etc/passwd by hand: user1:*:1002:545:... Note that this has only an effect in Cygwin. And note that the user's guide contains a description what you can change in http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.1 HTH, Corinna -- 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/
