On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> No problem, I'll rewrite this (after actually looking at the code this >> time). However, at least on my machine, most of the files, especially in >> /cygdrive/c, are owned by the Administrators group. If it's not in >> /etc/passwd, most files show up with "????????" for the user, which is not >> very informative... > >Sure but in this case the admins group is treated as a user since it's >in the user entry of the file's security descriptor. > >I think we never get that right. The problem is that the ls entries >only are 8 chars long, not enough to be really informative. Whatever >you put in there ("unknown", "????????", "mkpasswd", "run mkpa", >"dumbass"), you will deterministically get confused users.
Hey. "dumbass". That may be the best suggstion yet. I'd definitely want to get rid of that if I saw it! I'd probably spend some time researching how to do it. I like it! cgf