X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4D215676.9010900@jackson.io> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:54:14 -0500 From: Ken Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: unknown owner 4294967295 should be Adminstrators References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 > How to chown all files from 4294967295:18 to 544:18 or, at least, recognize > the files to be owned by "Administrators". > > chown -R ... would not work because it will chown all files. Also the files > not owned by 4294967295. > > chown -vR --from=4294967295:18 Adminstrators:SYSTEM ... > chown: invalid user: `4294967295:18' I don't have a cygwin system handy to test at the moment, but I think this will work. find . -uid 4294967295 -exec chown Administrators {} + BTW, did you notice that that number is suspiciously equal to 0xFFFFFFFF? -Ken Jackson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple