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From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Permissions issues after installing Windows 10
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 09:14:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=S0LmwOtmh_PhaX3wAMKEKmq-u+9HPZ3a3KkPv3AvU_BQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65f61260-7a7f-e7dc-e3f6-4eddead9da74@pdc.ca>

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 6:44 AM Brent Epp wrote:

In the [Security] tab for these files or directories, under "Group or
> user names", it lists the owner as "Account Unknown(S-...)".  In some
> cases, these files are completely inaccessible and I can't even take
> ownership or change the permissions.  I have to either restore them from
> a backup or boot to a Linux environment to access them.
>

Windows displays "Account Unknown" (with a SID) in the ACL when it can't
resolve the SID reference.

There can be a number of reasons for this. One common reason is that the
SID belongs to a domain account and the domain is not accessible. Another
is that the SID belongs to a local account on a different computer (e.g., a
removable disk is moved between computers and local accounts are in the
ACL). Well-known SIDs (e.g., S-1-5-32-544 for the local Administrators
group, etc.) should resolve from any computer.

Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-02 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-07 15:00 Brent Epp
2022-05-08 15:35 ` Andrey Repin
2022-06-02 12:43   ` Brent Epp
2022-06-02 15:14     ` Bill Stewart [this message]
2022-06-03 12:23       ` Brent Epp
2022-06-03 12:47         ` Achim Gratz
2022-06-03 16:42         ` Bill Stewart

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