Dave Korn wrote: > 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. Hi Dave, I changed my uid an gid in my passwd file to 4294967295 because that is what ls -ln showed. If that is not a good thing to do what is the right thing to do? > 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 > -- Wes Barris Web: www.wesbarris.com E-Mail: wesb@wesbarris.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's fortune: Two wrongs are only the beginning. -- 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