group = (2**32-1) = 4294967295

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 6 13:32:00 GMT 2008


On Nov  5 12:10, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> But you have the properties dialog in Explorer, or the cacls tool
>> on the command line to find out.  If that's on Vista, it might be
>> the "TrustedInstaller" group which is neither a local group nor a
>> domain group.  Don't ask me what the idea behind this group is.
> ---
> 	It's in Windows XP -- their are only two entries in the
> Security Tab -- me and 'SYSTEM'.  It had me s owner, but with no
> access, so that fixes the access error I was also getting, BUT
> the group is still unset.
>
> cacls shows:
> C:\home\law\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
>    ATHENA\law:(OI)(CI)F
>    NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F
>
> Hmmm....is "NT AUTHORITY", not considered a 'local' system account maybe?
> Otherwise, shouldn't it show SYSTEM as the group?

Yes.


What you can do is a `strace -o dbg.blurbs ls -l filename'
At some point in the dbg.blurbs file you should find two lines in a
row like these:

  get_sids_info: owner SID = S-1-...
  get_sids_info: group SID = S-1-...

The SIDs should help to find out what group this is.


Corinna

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