From: jj@digisle.net (JJ Streicher-Bremer) Subject: Re: B20: chmod @#?!*% 12 Nov 1998 13:06:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3649F75E.B4CAE1E0.cygnus.gnu-win32@digisle.net> References: <3.0.3.16.19981110200316.194f6952@exmachina.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Mullee Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Type "net localgroup" In this list you will see the "administrators" group. The administrators group is on _all_ windows NT systems and can not be removed. The mkgroup executable _never_ shows local groups. This is a bug in the mkgroup executable. JJ John Mullee wrote: > > > 14 -r-xr-xr-x 1 544 everyone 26800 Oct 14 1996 NTDETECT.COM* > > 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 administ Domain U 0 Nov 3 00:35 cygnus/ > > --snip-- > > (what's '544' ? not an NT group-id or user-id)) > > The touble is, there _is no such group_ !! on my machine. > It's a PDC which has no 'Local Admins' group, but a 'Domain admins' > group instead: > > bash-2.02$ mkgroup -l > Domain Admins::512: > Domain Guests::514: > Domain Users::513: > Everyone::0: > bash-2.02$ mkgroup -d > Domain Admins::512: > Domain Guests::514: > Domain Users::513: > Everyone::0: > > What gives ?!?! > > John. > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".