Permissions problems after domain change

Wed Aug 16 19:11:00 GMT 2006

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 16 August 2006 15:10, Chuck wrote:
>>> One more question on this topic. I still have a lot of files scattered
>> around the HD with an owner and/or group of "????????" (numeric uid of
>> 4294967295).
>> That's -1.
>>> Most of them are system files like ssh_config or the
>> /cygdrive/ directory. What user id and group should own these files?
>> 'nobody'. See the thread "group "name" for numberic value 2**32-1?" from
> last Friday. (You did search the archives, then?)
>>> cheers,
> DaveK

I did see that thread but couldn't determine from it what the correct
setting is. Are you saying to leave it as ????????, or do a "chown
nobody:nobody" on all those files?
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