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Re: multi-user file permission problems

From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:13:32 -0500
Subject: Re: multi-user file permission problems
References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302111745270.21272-100000@eos> <000a01c2d22a$42f50b10$78d96f83@pomello>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:04:07AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Brian Ford wrote:
> > I strongly vote for Users.
> 
> Actually, the currently proposed patch decides based on the group membership
> of the user running setup. But it might be better for this to be a choosable
> option.

It's Users when possible. It has to be one of the groups of the user running
setup. Administrators is the backup choice. It should be unusual.

I don't understand why Brian had problems this time, and not in previous installs.
Were you running setup from Cygwin, with a gid (in /etc/passwd) different from 513?

Pierre

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References:
- Re: multi-user file permission problems
  - From: Brian Ford
- Re: multi-user file permission problems
  - From: Max Bowsher

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