On Tue Feb 25 22:57:34 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > At 11:09 AM 2/24/2003 -0500, Ajay Simha wrote: > >On Mon Feb 24 10:32:51 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:24:58AM -0500, Ajay Simha wrote: > >> > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 1040 65535 162 Feb 24 10:10 > ~$LS_capability_Questionnaire.doc > >> > > ^^^^^ > >> This is unlikely to be the source of the problem, but just to > >> figure out what's going on, try > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ strace chmod 776 > '~$LS_capability_questionnaire.doc' | fgrep SID > > 174 61576 [main] chmod 2460 cygpsid::debug_print: alloc_sd: > owner SID = S-1-5-21-1801674531-2025429265-839522115-5320 <===== Who > is 5320? > > 252 61828 [main] chmod 2460 cygpsid::debug_print: alloc_sd: > group SID = S-1-5-21-1801674531-2025429265-839522115-513 <===== this > is "None" > > Ajay, here is a better answer. > > You write '<===== this is "None"', but in an earlier message you gave us your > group file with > None:S-1-5-21-1458511060-810114045-807829424-513:513: > so it isn't None. > > You write '<===== Who is 5320?' > and I think it's you. > > This is my explanation: you are running under a domain account and you have > not > executed mkpasswd -d nor mkgroup -d
Thanks for the reply. So here is my try at -d option: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cp /etc/passwd /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cp /etc/group /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied. <======== [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cp /tmp/passwd /etc/. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-ASIMHA-W2K02\Administrator,S-1-5-21 -1458511060-810114045-807829424-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash asimha:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1040:513:Ajay Simha,U-ASIMHA-W2K02\asimha,S-1-5-21-1 458511060-810114045-807829424-1040:/home/asimha:/bin/tcsh Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-ASIMHA-W2K02\Guest,S-1-5-21-1458511060-8101 14045-807829424-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ -ajay > You also have a local account with the same name. When you enter Cygwin from > Windows, Cygwin finds an entry under your name and does its best to use it, > among other things creating files with the gid of your local account and > mapping > the local uid to the domain sid. > However MS Word uses your domain account gid, which is missing from > /etc/group. > Hence the ???????. > > Pierre > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/