On 12/29/2010 11:46 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
When I do an 'ls -al' (or a getfacl) on some files, I get:
owner/group = ???????/???????, implying that the numeric uid/gid are
not found in the passwd/group file.
This occurs even though I ran:
mkpasswd -cl> /etc/passwd
mkgroup --local> /etc/group
The /owner and /primary group are displayed in subinacl (often as
'trustedinstaller'). Note that 'trustedinstaller' doesn't appear in my
passwd or group files.
So, question is why doesn't 'ls -al' and 'getfacl' give a more
'human readable' answer than '???????' even if trustedinstaller is a
bogus name. Or should I just think of ?????? as cygwin for
trustedinstaller?
The following section in the User's Guide explains why you see what you see:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids>
trustedinstaller is new with Vista and is not really a user, which is why
it doesn't show up in the passwd file. See this link for more details:
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.acl.aspx>
Your user != trustedinstaller. trustedinstaller is an indication that
Windows wants to control the security of this file. It shouldn't be the
owner of any files that are truly yours though.
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Larry
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