Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

Mon May 5 22:39:00 GMT 2014

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 05/05/2014 06:07 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>> Hmmm, just noticed something in /etc/group:
>>>> Chris J. Breisch:S-1-5-21-3514886939-1786686319-3519756147-1001:11001:
>>>> and on another machine where I can reproduce this:
>> Chris:S-1-5-21-1055441198-2882714470-4103286779-1001:11001:
>>>> Oddly, mkgroup -l does not produce this line on either machine, so I'm
>> not
>> sure where it came from. In both cases, the SID for the group is the
>> same as
>> the my user's SID.
>> Is 513/None in the /etc/group file too or is it missing?
>>
513/None is in /etc/group. It's the next to last line. The line above is 
the last line and apparently comes from some prior invocation of 
'mkgroup -c'. I never knew until this moment that there was a 'mkgroup 
-c', so I didn't do it. :) I am guessing that's part of Cygwin's 
postinstall?
-- 
Chris J. Breisch
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