On May 12 07:59, Karl M wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:33:13 +0200 > > From: corinna > > Subject: Re: Setup 1.7 2.621 > > > > Looks normal. The group file contains a root group because it gets > > added by the postinstall script. mkgroup does not add that automatically. > > And files group owned by "root" are actually owned by the administrators > > group for hopefully obvious reasons: > > > >> root:S-1-5-32-544:0: > > [...] > >> Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: > > > > > So what is the root group for and why is it added?
I don't recall the orignal reason to add it, but it's a useful fix point in terms of name and gid. The Administrators group can have different names in different languages. 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/
