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Re: "mkpasswd -c" from a cmd shell outputs wrong gid (cygwin-1.7)
- From: Herb Maeder <maeder-cygml at maeder dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:20:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: "mkpasswd -c" from a cmd shell outputs wrong gid (cygwin-1.7)
On 11 Oct 2008 07:29:12 PDT, Herb Maeder wrote:
> The "mkpasswd -c" command produces the wrong gid for the current user
> under the following set of circumstances:
>
> * it is invoked from a cmd.exe shell
> * there are no running cygwin bash shells
> * output is redirected to cygwin's /etc/passwd file (with the permissions
> that setup.exe sets on it)
>
> For example, the following should show the problem (from cmd.exe shell,
> directly after completing an initial cygwin install with setup-1.7.exe):
>
> cd c:\cygwin-1.7\bin
> .\mkpasswd -l -c > ..\etc\passwd
>
> For my case I see that it outputs "10544" as the gid, instead of the
> expected "10513" (Domain Users).
Oops, I forgot to mention that I noticed this on a Vista machine. I have
not been able to verify if happens on XP or not.
Herb.
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