X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:33:45 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: group = (2**32-1) = 4294967295 Message-ID: <20081106133345.GG6478@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> <20081104105650 DOT GA20638 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4911FDD3 DOT 8070609 AT tlinx DOT org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4911FDD3.8070609@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: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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 5 12:10, Linda Walsh wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> 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. > --- > It's in Windows XP -- their are only two entries in the > Security Tab -- me and 'SYSTEM'. It had me s owner, but with no > access, so that fixes the access error I was also getting, BUT > the group is still unset. > > cacls shows: > C:\home\law\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects > ATHENA\law:(OI)(CI)F > NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F > > Hmmm....is "NT AUTHORITY", not considered a 'local' system account maybe? > Otherwise, shouldn't it show SYSTEM as the group? Yes. What you can do is a `strace -o dbg.blurbs ls -l filename' At some point in the dbg.blurbs file you should find two lines in a row like these: get_sids_info: owner SID = S-1-... get_sids_info: group SID = S-1-... The SIDs should help to find out what group this 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/