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Resolving '????????' users and groups
- From: Wes Barris <wesb at wesbarris dot com>
- To: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:57:39 +1000
- Subject: Resolving '????????' users and groups
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:
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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 '????????'.
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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?
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Wes Barris
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