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Re: Cygwin-1.7 and 'None' [was Nobody] group


On Aug 17 00:09, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Gulp! In this context, the translation of 'Nessuno' should be 'None' and  
> NOT 'Nobody' :-(
>
> I resend correcting, for the sake of completeness... :-)
>
>
> -------- Messaggio Originale  --------
> Oggetto: Cygwin-1.7 and 'Nobody' group
>
>
> Usually, installing Cygwin, the file /etc/passwd contains things like:
>
> ...
> Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513...
> pippo:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1006:513...
> Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513
> ...
>
> so that 'ls -lrt' shows many files like this:
>
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 pippo None 5858 Jul 28 17:04 emoticon.txt
>
> To 'avoid' seeing 'None', the strategy I have applied has been to change
>
> 513 --> 544 for Administrator
> 513 --> 545 for pippo
> 513 --> 546 for Guest
>
> (using the informations from /etc/group...)
>
> Now, on Cygwin-1.7, with the default /etc/passwd and /etc/group, I see,
> as administrator, many files like
>
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator root 5858 Jul 28 17:04 foo.txt
>
> which looks right, and many files like
>
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 5858 Jul 28 17:04 foo.txt

Which is right as well.  After all these years I was sure that now
everyone was aware of the fact that the group "None" or whatever it's
called in other languages is not a bug in Cygwin, but an actual Windows
group.  The group is a local machine group with the RID 513.  The full
SID should be in your /etc/group file since an entry for this group gets
created by `mkgroup -l'.

If you don't like the name of the group, just change the name to
something you like more in /etc/group.  Better you don't give it the
same name as another group, otherwise you'll never know which group the
file is really owned by, unless you call `ls -ln'.


Corinna

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