On Feb 18 19:44, J.H. vd Water wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > >> After I had set up /etc/nsswitch.conf as follows > >> > >> db_enum: files > >> > >> the output of getpwent and getgrent looked "familiar" to me. (though the > >> output of 'id' is not). > > > >In how far? Did you read my text in terms of how user and group names > >are created? The leading separator char for builtin groups is an SFU > > Read and understand your text completely? No. Uh, well, I graciously allow to ask questions ;) > >thingy. If it's too disturbing we can discuss changing that, but right > >now I'm still looking for some kind of similarity. > > What I meant was: > > The output of 'id' in my "regular setup" shows: > > @@# id > uid=1003(Henri) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users) > > The output of 'id' in the "test setup" shows: > > $ id > uid=1003(Henri) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),0(root),545(Users),4(+INTERACTIVE),\ > 11(+AuthenticatedUsers),4095CurrentSession),66048(+LOCAL) > > To me the second output is different - but perhaps it is not. It shows groups which are present in your user token, but which are not in your /etc/group file. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat