BUG in /etc/pinforc (Attn: pinfo maintainer)

Mon Aug 30 15:24:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年8月30日, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Hi, Joshua,
>> Every time I run pinfo, I get the following message:
>> Security warning: Unable to get GID of group called: nobody
>> Looking in /etc/pinforc, I see
>> SAFE-USER=nobody
> SAFE-GROUP=nobody
>> AFAIK, "nobody" is not a standard user or group on Cygwin. I'm guessing
> it doesn't complain about the "nobody" user only because I created one for
> running apache.
>> I don't know what the right values would be here, but thought I'd report
> this.
> 	Igor

Whoops, should practice what I preach:
$ cygcheck -cd pinfo | grep pinfo
pinfo 0.6.8-1
$ diff /etc/pinforc.new /etc/pinforc
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pechtcha 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004年05月25日 22:07 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
$
HTH,
	Igor
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