On Jan 22 06:03, Eric Blake wrote: > -----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 fact that your /etc/groups is out-of-date.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.
A little bit more specific: Use the mkgroup -u flag. By default, mkgroup does not add the users to the gr_mem field since that's not necessary for correct operation of setuid(2). By adding the users to the gr_mem field (the -u option), you probably get what you want. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
