From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23662 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2015 14:10:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 23639 invoked by uid 9078); 22 Oct 2015 14:10:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 23631 invoked by uid 89); 22 Oct 2015 14:10:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-ig0-f173.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f173.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f173.google.com) (209.85.213.173) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:10:34 +0000 Received: by igdg1 with SMTP id g1so109746033igd.1; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:10:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.43.225 with SMTP id z1mr35375232igl.19.1445523031968; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:10:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.33.147 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:10:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20151022134817.GB5319@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20151021110950.GP5319@calimero.vinschen.de> <20151021160631.GB19868@calimero.vinschen.de> <20151022134817.GB5319@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Bad Address with /cygdrive paths From: Barry Roberts To: cygwin@cygwin.com, corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00375.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20151022173100.DY8_ZKdvwVEUqqNEdaAJibJBOMkuajpXzKtX2zgIF7A@z> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I could reproduce this and applied a patch which allows to proceed. > > However. > > The problem was that the SID S-1-0 has a subauthority count of 0, which > is really weird. S-1-0-0 would be the NULL SID, but while S-1-0 is a > valid SID (the so-called NULL SID authority), it's no valid account and > as such can't be converted to a valid account. > > And the user SID isn't much better. S-1-81 is no well known SID > authority at all. It's handled by Cygwin without much problems, > but of course that SID can't be converted to an account either. > > Do you have any explanation where these broken SIDs are coming from? > First a disclaimer: I am not a Windows expert. I only use it when forced to (and then under strenuous protest). These servers were handed to me by the operations team, and cfengine was probably used to configure them and install cygwin. I'll forward this to them and see if they can identify an issue with their process. Thanks, Barry -- 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