On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote: > What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n' > option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case > both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group > files accordingly so that my directory listing looks like this: >> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 wes admin 0 2010年01月10日 17:13 Projects That suggests you set your uid and gid to 4294967295, aka -1, aka 'nobody'; that's probably not a good thing. cheers, DaveK -- 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