-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 1/22/2007 2:34 AM: >> When "id" is called without a username, it calls the getgroups(...) function >> which appears to work as expected. However, when a specific username is >> passed, even the username of the current user, getugroups(...) is called, >> and does _not_ appear to work as expected. > > That's by design. getgroups() has access to the user token of the > current process and returns every group which is in this token. > getgrent() is a function which enumerates /etc/groups.
So my translation of this would be that the bug is not in id, but in the fact that your /etc/groups is out-of-date. Use mkgroups to remedy the situation. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFtLYi84KuGfSFAYARAniSAJ98xc4e+t/eN6oyjTUJh3db5/DnLACgx3bC WhRr6QVDuMuFUfJvp/zCRr8= =OOLE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
