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Date:	Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:43:51 +0000
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On 01/03/2010 23:08, Wes Barris wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote:
>>
>>> What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n'
>>> option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case
>>> both are 4294967295.  I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
>>> files accordingly so that my directory listing looks like this:
>>>
>>> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 wes     admin   0 2010-01-10 17:13 Projects
>>
>>   That suggests you set your uid and gid to 4294967295, aka -1, aka
>> 'nobody';
>> that's probably not a good thing.
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> I changed my uid an gid in my passwd file to 4294967295 because that
> is what ls -ln showed.  If that is not a good thing to do what is
> the right thing to do?

  Hi Wes,

    The right thing to do is to leave your uid/gid in the way that mkpasswd
and mkgrp choose, because that gives the cygwin dll the information it needs
to link them back to your actual user account in the windows OS permissions.
The other right thing to do is to then figure out what's going wrong with your
W: drive, and why the perms on it are wrong.  Is this some kind of network
drive, by any chance?

    cheers,
      DaveK


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