X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Resolving '????????' users and groups Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:50:03 -0800 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <4B8CA8D3 DOT 6010508 AT wesbarris DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100217 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0.3pre In-Reply-To: <4B8CA8D3.6010508@wesbarris.com> X-Stationery: 0.5.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 03/01/2010 09:57 PM, Wes Barris wrote: > I'm trying to find a solution for my files being listed with '????????' > as the owner and group: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 137894 2010-02-25 11:34 1536.gff > > The following page partially addresses this: > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html > > It says that: > > -------------------------- > If another user (or a Windows group, treated as a user) is not present > in /etc/passwd, the uid of that user will have a special value of -1 > (which would be shown by ls as 65535). The user name shown in this > case will be '????????'. > -------------------------- > > I would like to modify the /etc/passwd file so that it shows me > as the owner of these files instead of '????????'. That page > shows how /etc/passwd is used to create a mapping between Windows > Security SIDs and Cygwin uids. > > How do I find/list the Windows SIDs of these files so that I can > create the proper mapping in /etc/passwd? How about: $ mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd $ ls -l and see who owns it? -- Andrew DeFaria I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. -- 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