Re: "id -Gn" w/ username doesn't return all associated groups. Issue with getgrent()?

[Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>]

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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fact that your /etc/groups is out-of-date.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.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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