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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:51:03 -0400
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On 9/8/2010 6:45 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:37 PM -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <> wrote:

<snip>

>> I think you need to look at why the user that created the files in the
>> first place isn't known to Cygwin. If you can solve that problem, you
>> may find the rest falls into place.
>
> No clue, I assume it is some bug in cygwin, since this happens to any file
> created on this drive via Cygwin.
>
> build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
> $ whoami
> build
>
> build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
> $ ls -l blah
> ls: cannot access blah: No such file or directory
>
> build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
> $ touch blah
> l
> build@zre-win-002 /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS
> $ ls -l blah
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-09-08 15:45 blah

OK, take a look at <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids>.
You'll want to use 'mkpasswd' and 'mkgroup' to get the passwd and group
files fixed up.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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