Corinna Vinschen writes: > It means it doesn't know the SIDs. They don't show up in /etc/passwd > and /etc/group.
BUT THEY DO! And they must since why else would doing a trivial 'chmod' (that doesn't change anything) all of a sudden make them show up. $ subinacl /noverbose /nostatistic /file C:\\cygwin\\usr\\local\\bin\\testfolder /findsid=S-1-5-21-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1005 +File C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\testfolder /control=0x0 /owner =mymachine\userA /pace =mymachine\userA Type=0x0 Flags=0x0 AccessMask=0x1f01ff $ grep S-1-5-21-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1005 /etc/passwd userA:unused:1005:513:U-mymachine\userA,S-1-5-21-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1005:/home/userA:/bin/bash Note this error doesn't happen if I create a folder (using Windows tools) in C: but it does happen in all the other public places I tried, including: /c/Program Files /c/cygwin/usr /c/cygwin/usr/local /c/cygwin/usr/local/bin -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/%27ls%27-not-finding-owner-group-of-some-files-created-by-other-user-tp26355135p26371224.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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