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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:15:43 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.14: strange sshd error (openssh-3.9p1-2)
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On Apr  6 06:41, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2005 2:04 AM:
> > In Cygwin you can change the primary group to any group you're member of
> > by changing the pw_gid entry (e.g. 545 for "Users").
> 
> Is there any way in cygwin to implement the POSIX-required utility newgrp,
> and add such a utility to cygutils?  It would be nice to dynamically
> change groups rather than having to change the pw_gid entry every time I
> want my primary group changed.

Well, sure, go ahead.  Be aware that this allows to change the primary
group *only* to one of the groups already present in the processes' access
token.


Corinna

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