Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42C00777.3090702@bristol.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:04:39 +0100 From: Peter Green User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: group IDs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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? I am running XP professional, version 2002, sp2 I downloaded Cygwin on 23 June 2005. -- Professor Peter Green tel: +44 (0)117 928 7967 School of Mathematics fax: +44 (0)117 928 7999 University of Bristol P.J.Green@bristol.ac.uk Bristol BS8 1TW, UK http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/~peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/