On Nov 4 02:41, Linda Walsh wrote: > I've just noticed a bunch to several files owned by group 4294967295 > > I reran the mkpasswd -ld & mkgroup -ld utils to make sure I had the latest > entries in my passwd & group files. > > Any idea they correspond to? I don't have any known utils that try to > set a group of "-1" and the files with the odd group setting don't > appear to have been created by cygwin.
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. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
