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Re: Oddity when working with webdrive mounted network drives
On Jan 8 11:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 7 16:23, Robert Pendell wrote:
> > $ ls -n /cygdrive/w
> > total 44M
> > drwxrwxrwx 1 4294967295 4294967295 4.0K 2009-11-04 03:20 Maildir/
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> And that means the SIDs of owner and group are not known to Cygwin,
> since they are not present in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. The permissions
> are taken from what the OS call to fetch the ACL returns.
Let me rephrase. The permissions as well as the SIDs are taken from
what the OS returns for that drive. You should check the ACL content
for files and dirs on that drive using cacls or the GUI. That's what
Cygwin gets to see as well.
Corinna
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