xfree problem

Pierre A. Humblet Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org
Mon Jul 1 17:33:00 GMT 2002


At 08:26 PM 7/1/2002 EDT, Harold L Hunt wrote:
>
>Pierre,
>
>> Don't worry, Cygwin won't require users to run mkpasswd or to edit passwd
>> by hand. The patch I have sent will satisfy you.
>
>Sounds good.
>
>> Just out of curiosity, could you run mkgroup -d ?
>
>Domain Users:S-1-5-21-2139319003-1153703952-439713625-513:10513:
>
>This is really interesting...

mkgroup -d >> /etc/group
or perhaps mkgroup -ld > /etc/group

should solve your problems.

Clearly cygwin must allow program to innocently setuid/gid to themselves
even without complete passwd and group files. Working on it. 

Pierre



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