Re: How come I'm still the mkgroup group?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Clifford Moravetz wrote:
>> I'm wondering why I'm still in the 'mkgroup' group even after running
>> the mkgroup and mkpasswd commands. I ran these commands like this:
>>
>> mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd
>> mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group
>>
>> but when I run the id command I'm still in the mkgroup. Here's the
>> output from my id command:
>>
>> uid=21522(Moravetz) gid=22162(mkgroup)
>> groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),1005(Debugger
>> Users),28009(cc_users),10513(Domain
>> Users),18698(InternetAccess_A),28014(SB-CCUltiview),22162(mkgroup)
>>
>> It got wrapped in a few odd places because of Yahoo's rules about
>> word wrapping. I've attached the output of cygcheck as requested.
> 
> 
> Thank you.  It looks like your primary group ID is 22162.  It's possible
> that 'mkgroup' is having problems getting information for that group id
> from your domain.  Do you see any errors when you run 'mkgroup'?
> 
> 
I've not been able to get any effect from the recommended mkpasswd and 
mkgroup commands in recent years, on about 4 separate installations. 
There are no error messages, simply no effect.  I haven't seen it as an 
issue to be raised, as it didn't have any obvious negative effect.  I 
assumed it might be partly that, in the case of the laptop, operation 
both when connected and disconnected from a domain might not have any 
particular support.