Understanding Cygwin /etc/passwd and /etc/group on W98
Steve Jorgensen
jorgens@coho.net
Fri Jul 27 01:54:00 GMT 2001
On Windows 98, I'm curious why /etc/group looks like an exact copy of
/etc/passwd. they both look like this:
Syhome::500:544::/home/Syhome:/bin/bash
Shouldn't /etc/group contain an entry for a group with GID of 544 to match
the default GID for UID 500 rather than a copy of the passwd file? FWIU,
when looked at as passwd entry, this refers to a user with UID 500 and
default group GID 544, but as a group entry, this defines a group with GID
500 having a single member UID 544. Since there is neither a UID of 544 or
a GID of 500, these files don't look compatible.
I see that if I run mkgroup, I get an entry that looks valid:
unknown::544:
but I thought setup created /etc/group by running mkgroup, so why isn't
that what /etc/group already contains?
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