> This might happen if either one of these SIDs is invalid or NULL, which > in turn may occur if the owner or group SID can't be found in the > account DB. > > The question is then, is your /etc/passwd or /etc/groups file broken, > and/or are you using the "files" only method in /etc/nsswitch.conf?
I don't know how to tell if those files are broken. /etc/nsswitch.conf has only comments. Interestingly, this problem did not occur at work, Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit. Perhaps one of passwd/group is broken at home, but not at work? Is there a way to re-create either /etc/passwd and/or /etc/groups as if I were installing Cygwin from scratch (but not actually doing that)? The install was done before the ACL changes, so I don't know if either file was (or needs to be) "transformed". - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
