On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 at 20:46, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 2025-06-04 10:58, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > Why is there no "world" group in Cygwin by default? > > So war I've found EVERY Windows access token contains an group entry > > for S-1-1-0 (World), which makes me wonder by Cygwin doesn't generate > > a GID by default. > > It's also called Everyone on some Windows versions/editions, and does not fit > the POSIX security model, but is used in D/ACLs for Other 007.
How would a POSIX group (i.e. getent group world) not fit into the POSIX model? Just everyone would be member of this group... Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
