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Re: ntsec & setup


At 02:51 PM 3/20/2003 -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>I'm curious: when is the user's primary group not None? Can you actually set
>this anywhere in the Windows UI?

For local users Windows sets it to None and AFAIK this can't be changed.
For domain users it can be specified in a Windows GUI.
In both cases Cygwin changes it to the value in /etc/passwd (which must be 
one of the user's groups). This affects setup.exe when starting from Cygwin.

Pierre


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