Re: Re: Setup.exe (v2.609) Primary Group Problem

[Matt Rice <citrusmoose at hotmail dot com>]

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

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