On 09/30/2011 09:49 PM, gsingh93 wrote:
Why do these two commands give different groups? It's the same user.
Because the effective gid set for the existing process differs from the
recorded groups in /etc/groups - most likely, you've changed /etc/groups
but haven't logged out and back in to start a new process hierarchy that
uses the new groups.
Gulshan@GSJK-PC /etc
$ id Gulshan
uid=1000(Gulshan) gid=545(Users) groups=545(Users),0(root)
That's what the groups will be if a new process is started for Gulshan.
Gulshan@GSJK-PC /etc
$ id
uid=1000(Gulshan) gid=545(Users) groups=545(Users),513(None)
Whereas that's what the groups are now for the current process.
This aspect of your situation is not cygwin-specific, the same behavior
can be observed in other OSs when you change the user database after a
particular user already has a process started.
Furthermore, the commands mkgroup and mkpasswd give the orginial states of
their corresponding files instead of what I changed them to. Why is that?
This part is cygwin-specific - and the answer is that mkgroup and
mkpasswd are querying Window's database of user information, not /etc
(so that you can then populate /etc with information that matches the
Window's database). Windows doesn't care what you put in /etc, so the
amount of changes you can make in those files that still have a
worthwhile visible effect to cygwin processes is a bit limited.
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