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Subject: Re: 'ls' not finding owner/group of some files created by other   user
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On Nov 15 08:48, aputerguy wrote:
> 
> Jason DePriest wrote:
> > Does 'ls -n' show the UIDs under both users?
> 
> ls -n shows uid=gid=4294967295 which I believe is UINT_MAX (2^32-1), so this
> is just -1.
> 
> Maybe what's happening is that cygwin is returning an error (-1) here?

It means it doesn't know the SIDs.  They don't show up in /etc/passwd
and /etc/group.


Corinna

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