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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:49:34 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>
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To: Timothy Reaves <treaves AT y11a165 DOT neo DOT rr DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Display of file ownership
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Timothy Reaves wrote:
> 
>         I set up the passwd & group files in /etc as per the docs.  This
> changed the display of file ownership (from ls -la) from 'everyone' to 'none'.
> Is this as it should be?

Yes, this is correct, if you are using NTFS file system. The (english spoken)
group `none' is ID 513, this is s.th. like a pseudo group ID, which is used,
if no group ownership is given to the file. It's NT, not cygwin.

Regards,
Corinna



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