Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 05/05/2014 06:39 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 05/05/2014 06:07 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>>> Hmmm, just noticed something in /etc/group:
>>>
>>> Chris J. Breisch:S-1-5-21-3514886939-1786686319-3519756147-1001:11001:
>>>
>>> and on another machine where I can reproduce this:
>>> Chris:S-1-5-21-1055441198-2882714470-4103286779-1001:11001:
>>>
>>> Oddly, mkgroup -l does not produce this line on either machine, so I'm
>>> not
>>> sure where it came from. In both cases, the SID for the group is the
>>> same as
>>> the my user's SID.
>>
>> Is 513/None in the /etc/group file too or is it missing?
>>
>>
>
> 513/None is in /etc/group. It's the next to last line. The line above is the
> last line and apparently comes from some prior invocation of 'mkgroup -c'. I
> never knew until this moment that there was a 'mkgroup -c', so I didn't do
> it. :) I am guessing that's part of Cygwin's postinstall?

Yes.  See /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh*

I'm not quite sure why your user and its ID ended up in your group file
though.  I don't see it in mine and invoking 'mkgroup -l -c' doesn't
enumerate it.  For the moment, you can try removing this line and
see if it helps with your problem.


-- 
Larry

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