On Dec 9 14:14, Matt Rice wrote: > My understanding was that when I ran setup.exe, new files would have > my primary group (the way I had it set up in /etc/passwd). I was eager > to try it out since the current stable version of setup.exe > (v2.573.2.3) would always use "users" as the group. However, once I > upgraded and checked out the permissions on the updated items, they > all had a group of ???????? (-1). Did I assume or do something wrong?
Yes. Setup.exe is a native Win32 application, not a Cygwin application. It doesn't know about the settings in /etc/passwd. Thus it uses your primary Windows group. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
