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Re: /etc/group not being read

From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:42:45 -0500
Subject: Re: /etc/group not being read
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021105121520.033b55b0@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> <5.1.0.14.2.20021105105333.01cb2b08@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> <5.1.0.14.2.20021105105333.01cb2b08@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> <5.1.0.14.2.20021105121520.033b55b0@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> <5.1.0.14.2.20021105162441.033cdfd8@popserve.grc.nasa.gov>

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:30:17PM -0500, James D Below wrote:
> After seeing permissions and ownerships not updating properly. I stopped 
> the sshd service and started it back up.
> 
> After that, the group permissions were correctly being assigned.
Great.

> Should I have had to restart the ssh service?
No

> When does cywin read /etc/group and /etc/passwd. I was imagining it to be 
> the manner as other unix/linux OSes.

It rereads the files when they are modified. That works fine here.
There have been reports of problmes with network drives, 
although the symptoms were different. 
Is your /etc on a local or a network drive?

Pierre


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