On May 2 11:51, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 2 May 2015 at 07:47, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On May 1 17:32, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > Workaround: Set the primary group to the affected files explicitely to > > an existing group which is in your user token. That would typically be > > the group "users", e.g. > > > > chgrp users /tmp/uscreens > > > > should work, and then you can chmod it and screen should stop > > complaining. > > > > Thank you for answering while you are on vacation. I am going to see > if a /etc/passwd and /etc/group entry to better fix that long term.
Setting the group permanently without patching Cygwin and without passwd and group files: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-desc As outlined in this section, add this to the SAM description field for your account: <cygwin group="Users"/> Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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