Dave Korn wrote: > On 16 August 2006 15:10, Chuck wrote: > >> One more question on this topic. I still have a lot of files scattered >> around the HD with an owner and/or group of "????????" (numeric uid of >> 4294967295). > > That's -1. > >> Most of them are system files like ssh_config or the >> /cygdrive/ directory. What user id and group should own these files? > > 'nobody'. See the thread "group "name" for numberic value 2**32-1?" from > last Friday. (You did search the archives, then?) > > > cheers, > DaveK
I did see that thread but couldn't determine from it what the correct setting is. Are you saying to leave it as ????????, or do a "chown nobody:nobody" on all those files? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/