On Nov 15 08:48, aputerguy wrote: >> Jason DePriest wrote: > > Does 'ls -n' show the UIDs under both users? >> ls -n shows uid=gid=4294967295 which I believe is UINT_MAX (2^32-1), so this > is just -1. >> Maybe what's happening is that cygwin is returning an error (-1) here? It means it doesn't know the SIDs. They don't show up in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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