On 11 Oct 2008 07:29:12 PDT, Herb Maeder wrote: > The "mkpasswd -c" command produces the wrong gid for the current user > under the following set of circumstances: > > * it is invoked from a cmd.exe shell > * there are no running cygwin bash shells > * output is redirected to cygwin's /etc/passwd file (with the permissions > that setup.exe sets on it) > > For example, the following should show the problem (from cmd.exe shell, > directly after completing an initial cygwin install with setup-1.7.exe): > > cd c:\cygwin-1.7\bin > .\mkpasswd -l -c > ..\etc\passwd > > For my case I see that it outputs "10544" as the gid, instead of the > expected "10513" (Domain Users).
Oops, I forgot to mention that I noticed this on a Vista machine. I have not been able to verify if happens on XP or not. Herb. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
