X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:56:50 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: group = (2**32-1) = 4294967295 Message-ID: <20081104105650.GA20638@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <491026C2 DOT 8000409 AT tlinx DOT org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <491026C2.8000409@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Nov 4 02:41, Linda Walsh wrote: > I've just noticed a bunch to several files owned by group 4294967295 > > I reran the mkpasswd -ld & mkgroup -ld utils to make sure I had the latest > entries in my passwd & group files. > > Any idea they correspond to? I don't have any known utils that try to > set a group of "-1" and the files with the odd group setting don't > appear to have been created by cygwin. But you have the properties dialog in Explorer, or the cacls tool on the command line to find out. If that's on Vista, it might be the "TrustedInstaller" group which is neither a local group nor a domain group. Don't ask me what the idea behind this group is. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/