Resolving '????????' users and groups

Andrew DeFaria Andrew@DeFaria.com
Tue Mar 2 06:50:00 GMT 2010


On 03/01/2010 09:57 PM, Wes Barris wrote:
> 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:
>
> --------------------------
> 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 '????????'.
> --------------------------
>
> 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?
How about:

$ mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd
$ ls -l <file>

and see who owns it?
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.


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