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Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:52:24 +0000
- Subject: Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group
- References: <4B8B4B2E.1040506@wesbarris.com>
On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote:
> What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n'
> option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case
> both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> files accordingly so that my directory listing looks like this:
>
> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 wes admin 0 2010-01-10 17:13 Projects
That suggests you set your uid and gid to 4294967295, aka -1, aka 'nobody';
that's probably not a good thing.
cheers,
DaveK
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