How to delete a file without owner and group?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 3/1/2010 10:48 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> I have a file that doesn't have owner and group and hence I can not
> delete it. Could somebody let me know how to delete it?
>
> office@office-PC /tmp
> $ ll
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 0 2009-11-28 10:12 foo.sh
>
> office@office-PC /tmp
> $ chown office foo.sh
> chown: changing ownership of `foo.sh': Permission denied
>
> office@office-PC /tmp
> $ rm foo.sh
> rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `foo.sh'? y
> rm: cannot remove `foo.sh': Permission denied

Does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids>
answer your question?

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A: Yes.
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