X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=xyfbMHw1sXVeca61fBEQ8SqrdFJB2 dqpvOiv9dFQW4dedyoAi1DOi9fyjTx/PzF7WAp3tkudVHjHMDDzS1zwOtQbFXPPO D4d0G7LmTNSwYCs3rXEUkOW1BQ3TvAAZPy9qZXg3UiltyvkEhx0UgcnT74O3BwSk U1qxwE1lRwyMCE= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; s=default; bh=Cdyvx19UW7zWd86t9kyLj8Q3gig=; b=mmZ hj3RODCnSd5lcdI6TBUj94H/r1nOrb1x7b5+9xb9trmFcpXKz9TZ3L6dQlFVq9Z9 YgKY3fnZocrUJNFv44yuXBeAroSt+fC+m/OL6LUqDAz9iDG6F9zpiYFNjJPm1wB9 ifcWRF3WjaelpUDRO3uiGj28AeOCwEptD+TI+PtY= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-lb0-f181.google.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.64.137 with SMTP id o9mr2313300lbs.15.1428069806975; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:03:26 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Why does cl -l returns "Administrators" as owner? From: Mirko Vukovic To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes This is not an only Cygwin question (I see it also in the output of the Windows version of Emacs's dired). For some files in my directories, the output of ls -l gives the "Administrators" as owner. This is puzzling to me because: - There is no Administrators user listed in the Windows accounts - Under Explorer/Properties/Details, the user is my domain/my user id which is what I expect I looked in the FAQ, Documentation, Google (both cygwin and emacs). This causes problems for remote activities via ssh. I cannot operate on these files, unless I do a chown to my user id. But this then changes some of the permissions as well. And this can then lead to problems down the line if not done carefully - me and my sysadmin I learned the hard way :-) Thanks, Mirko -- 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