From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 41492 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2015 14:03:32 -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 41483 invoked by uid 89); 3 Apr 2015 14:03:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-lb0-f181.google.com Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (HELO mail-lb0-f181.google.com) (209.85.217.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:03:30 +0000 Received: by lbbzk7 with SMTP id zk7so63411926lbb.0 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:03:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.64.137 with SMTP id o9mr2313300lbs.15.1428069806975; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.0.73 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Why does cl -l returns "Administrators" as owner? From: Mirko Vukovic To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-04/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 This is not an only Cygwin question (I see it also in the output of the Windows version of Emacs's dired). For some files in my directories, the output of ls -l gives the "Administrators" as owner. This is puzzling to me because: - There is no Administrators user listed in the Windows accounts - Under Explorer/Properties/Details, the user is my domain/my user id which is what I expect I looked in the FAQ, Documentation, Google (both cygwin and emacs). This causes problems for remote activities via ssh. I cannot operate on these files, unless I do a chown to my user id. But this then changes some of the permissions as well. And this can then lead to problems down the line if not done carefully - me and my sysadmin I learned the hard way :-) Thanks, Mirko -- 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