Setup.exe (v2.609) Primary Group Problem

[Matt Rice]

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?

Thanks,
Matt


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