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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:18:54 +0200
From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo DOT graziosi AT alice DOT it>
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Usually, installing Cygwin, the file /etc/passwd contains things like:

...
Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513...
pippo:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1006:513...
Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513
...

so that 'ls -lrt' shows many files like this:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 pippo Nobody 5858 Jul 28 17:04 emoticon.txt

To 'avoid' seeing 'Nobody', the strategy I have applied has been to change

513 --> 544 for Administrator
513 --> 545 for pippo
513 --> 546 for Guest

(using the informations from /etc/group...)

Now, on Cygwin-1.7, with the default /etc/passwd and /etc/group, I see,
as admin., many file like

    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator root 5858 Jul 28 17:04 foo.txt

which looks right, and many files like

    -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator Nobody 5858 Jul 28 17:04 foo.txt

If, now, I adopt the above strategy (513 --> ...), the files with

    'Administrator root' change to 'Administrator Administrators'

and other remains with 'Administrator Nobody'

Seeing the Properties with Explorer, these file have, in User and Group,
besides Administrators and Everybody, also

    Nobody

which does not happen with the same files in Cygwin-1.5.

So, should one lives with these 'Nobody' in Cygwin-1.7?


Thanks,
    Angelo.

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