From: Marc DOT Haber-usenet AT gmx DOT de (Marc Haber) Subject: setting uid for new files? 4 Jan 1999 21:55:35 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi! I am trying to build tar using cygwin B20. Since I don't have a tar executable on my Windows machine, I untarred the distribution on the UNIX box and used samba to transfer the files to the Windows box. However, it doesn't seem to allow me to write in the directory I have just created: |bash-2.02$ ls -al |total 236 |drwxr-xr-x 9 544 Kein 0 Jan 4 21:33 . |drwxr-xr-x 10 544 Kein 0 Jan 4 21:33 .. |-rw-r--r-- 1 544 Kein 11451 Apr 19 1997 ABOUT-NLS |-rw-r--r-- 1 544 Kein 1040 Apr 19 1997 AC-PATCHES |drwxr-xr-x 2 544 Kein 0 Jan 4 21:33 tests |bash-2.02$ cat /etc/passwd |Administrator::500:513:::/bin/sh |Gast::501:513:::/bin/sh |mh::1000:513:::/bin/sh |bash-2.02$ cat /etc/group |Kein::513: |Everyone::0: |bash-2.02$ whoami |administrator |bash-2.02$ Where does that uid 544 come from? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".