Greetings, David Dyer-Bennet! > All my files are on drive P: in Windows, which is an SMB share > equivalent to \\fsfs\ddb\Documents. Everything works fine in windows > apps, and I see what I expect in Explorer, including when I go down to > security properties and look in detail.
> However, Cygwin has trouble with this lately (I can't trace exactly when > it started happening; not weeks, maybe a year, but I've been running > essentially this way since 2006 and most of the time things were fine). > Cygwin appears to be accessing the share as some kind of unknown user, > rather than as the proper user configured in Windows for that share > (which is FSFS\ddb). > In Cygwin "id" shows > $ id > uid=197608(David Dyer-Bennet) gid=197121(None) > groups=197121(None), > 114(Local account and member of Administrators group), > 544(Administrators), You're running Cygwin with elevated privileges. > 545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE > LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization),113(Local > account),66048(LOCAL),262154(NTLM Authentication),405504(High Mandatory > Level) > but if I create a file it gets created owned by "Unknown+User": > $ touch foobar > David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 /cygdrive/p > $ ls -l foobar > ----r--r-- 1 Unknown+User Unix_Group+1001 0 May 28 17:27 foobar > David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 /cygdrive/p > $ getfacl foobar > # file: foobar > # owner: Unknown+User > # group: Unix_Group+1001 Your share is located on Samba server. > user::--- > group::r-- > other:r-- > And then of course I can't access it: > $ echo things >> foobar > -bash: foobar: Permission denied See Cygwin manual about setting up your network identity. Read around nsswitch.conf and implications of its different settings. > I haven't that I've noticed done anything to change what user I run as; > $USER is "David Dyer-Bennet" (the Windows username I'm in under), and > /etc/passwd has default output from mkpasswd, Ditch /etc/passwd unless you absolutely require it. > including the user "David > Dyer-Bennet" with the UID 197608 (same is ID shows at the command line). > At least I can count on people here not answering "just ditch > Cygwin"...right? And please leave ramblings outside the list. This was absolutely uncalled for. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, May 29, 2017 22:49:56 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
