Hi, I wonder why on cygwin we can't use chown with numeric id that don't exist in /etc/passwd, /etc/group [1] ?
On linux this works perfectly [2] Matthieu [1] $ touch /tmp/toto $ chown 12345:12346 /tmp/toto chown: changing ownership of `/tmp/toto': Invalid argument [2] $ touch /tmp/toto $ sudo chown 12345:12346 /tmp/toto $ ls -l /tmp/toto -rw-r--r-- 1 12345 12346 0 fév 28 14:56 /tmp/toto -- 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/