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Re: Why mkgroup does not list group members?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:50:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: Why mkgroup does not list group members?
- References: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0AF7961F at MLBXv04 dot nih dot gov>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 13 17:43, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The current version of the mkgroup utility does not seem to care
> about group members when generating the group file (either out of
> domain or locally). I wonder what prevented it from using
> NetGroupGetUsers()/NetLocalGroupGetMembers() to list the group
> users after that last colon.
Because it's not necessary since the groups are in your user token
anyway, and so is extra work for no gain.
Corinna
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