On Dec 17 08:04, Matt Rice wrote: > Matt Rice wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> >> Thanks for the quick reply. I thought it would be possible for setup.exe >> to >> read /etc/passwd. My user name is part of a domain so I don't have a way >> of >> changing my primary group (to the local admins group anyway). Anyway, I >> had to >> go back to using cygwin 1.5 anyway because of similar problem to the >> problem >> from this thread (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-11/msg00083.html, >> save XP >> SP3 instead of Vista). I'm guessing there's no workaround for the desired >> install group for either 1.5 or 1.7's setup? >> >> - Matt >> > Sorry for mailing twice, I never got a response. Is there a workaround for > getting the default install group to be what I want it to be?
I don't understand why a later chgrp doesn't provide what you need. 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/
