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On Jul 26 09:12, Tom Rodman wrote:
> I use cygwin in a large domain, from time to time my account is
> added or removed from domain groups without any warning (last
> time 'IT' added 'Domain Users' to some other domain group - so all
> domain users were impacted!).  When this happens my credentials in
> a password-authenticated ssh session, get clobbered & I have
> to manually edit /etc/group, per:
> 
>   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg01287.html
> 
> Does this issue "go away" under cygwin 1.7?

I don't know but it's supposed to be better.  I relaxed the rules which
result in a token created through password login being overridden with a
self-created token.  You will still have to create a new /etc/group,
though.


Corinna

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