Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue May 6 13:02:00 GMT 2014


On May  5 14:52, Robert Pendell wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > alloc_sd (the underlying function creating a security descriptor) gets
> > a uid 1001 and gid 513 as input, as usual.  But the owner *and* group
> > SIDs of the file's existing security descriptor is
> > S-1-5-21-3514886939-1786686319-3519756147-1001, the SID of your user
> > account.
> >
> > Why is your user account the primary group of the file, even though
> > your user token definitely has "None" (513) as its primary group?
> > How did it get there?
> >
> > Is that something enforced by the "Microsoft accounts", perhaps?
> >
> > I just had a look into the Local Security Policy settings, and I can't
> > see any related setting.
> >
> >
> > Corinna
> >
> 
> I just saw this thread.  I'm running Windows 8.1 Update 1 and I'm
> using a Microsoft Account as login.  I'm seeing the same behavior on
> my machine as well with Cygwin64.  I'm open to any tests that you
> would like me to do as well.

Thanks for the offer.  Please see my mails I just sent in reply to
Chris' mails:

  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00083.html
  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00084.html

if you'd like to test the latest snapshot and follow my suggestions
in terms of the primary group...


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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Red Hat
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