Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/27/10:14:14
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Peter Green wrote:
> I am new to the list - apologies if this has
> all been sorted out before, but I couldn't find the
> solution.
>
> Files I create from within Cygwin (e.g. by touch or the output of gcc)
> have numerical group ID 10545, while those created in Windows
> applications (e.g. Thunderbird, Notetab) get group ID 4294967295.
> 'mkgroup' gives 'Users' the ID of 545.
> This is confusing me, and giving me problems accessing my own file s-
> how do I get all these IDs to agree?
10545 is usually "Domain Users" (the domain user and group ids are offset
by 10000 by default). 545 is local "Users". 4294967295 is really "-1" --
see <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids> for an
explanation. "getfacl" (or NT's "cacls") should give you the actual
owner/group.
To get the domain groups into /etc/group, use "mkgroup -d >> /etc/group"
(warning -- may take a *long* time in large domains). You can give the
"-g" flag to mkgroup to extract specific domain groups. Similarly, for
domain users, use "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd" (same warning applies).
See "man mkpasswd" and "man mkgroup" for more information.
> I am running XP professional, version 2002, sp2
> I downloaded Cygwin on 23 June 2005.
See <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> for guidelines on including relevant
information in your problem reports.
HTH,
Igor
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