On 28 February 2008 13:59, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder why on cygwin we can't use chown with numeric id that don't exist
> in /etc/passwd, /etc/group [1] ?
Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs,
which are owned, allocated and controlled by the system, and not under the
arbitrary choice of the user, so the semantics wouldn't be the same even if we
did create ACLs with unrecognised SIDs on them.
cheers,
DaveK
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