From: Ben Altman <benalt@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: chmod failing on user's permissions
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd614ba1-84fa-f3c8-2cfe-1c65a01c7868@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <583CC53B.2060206@tlinx.org>
On 11/28/2016 7:00 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> Ben Altman wrote: When I get a directory listing, it shows for each
>> file "Unknown+User Unknown+Group" while on the desktop the same files
>> show my user name that I logged in with and "Domain Users" as the
>> group.
> ---
> Is your laptop a member of the domain? How do each of them
> resolve User&Group ID's?
>
>
>> It also shows as unknown if I create a file on the laptop.
> ----
> It doesn't sound like your laptop is looking up the ID's from the same
> location as your desktop, and perhaps more likely,
> it doesn't sound like your laptop is looking up ID's by checking
> with the domain.
>
Thanks for you response. I tracked down the issue to there not being any
/etc/group file. I did a "mkgroup > /etc/group" and the issue went away.
I am not sure why the file wasn't there.
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-30 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-28 19:54 Ben Altman
2016-11-29 13:26 ` L. A. Walsh
2016-11-30 15:55 ` Ben Altman [this message]
2016-11-30 19:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
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