On Nov 29 08:51, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/29/2011 08:42 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > The only serious difference I see here is that I get "d---------+", so > > going by just that, I shouldn't even be able to cd into it! > > See that + on the end of the mode field? That means there are ACLs in > affect; and my guess is one of the ACLs allows your uid to change to > that directory even though the owner of the directory does not have the > same permissions. > > > $ getfacl /c > > # file: /c > > # owner: ???????? > > # group: ???????? > > user::--- > > group::--- > > group:root:rwx > > group:SYSTEM:rwx > > group:Users:r-x > > Yep - just as I said. The actual uid/gid owner (which is probably being > treated as -1 meaning your /etc/group and /etc/passwd are incomplete)
For system installed dirs, that's typically the "TrustedInstaller" account, which doesn't match any usual SID scheme. It's not in /etc/passwd or /etc/group since mkpasswd/mkgroup don't make any effort to generate an entry. Patches welcome. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
