How to delete a file without owner and group?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 3/2/2010 11:51 AM, Charles D. Russell wrote:
> On 3/2/2010 3:15 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>
>> Does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids>
>> answer your question?
>>
>
> Is there a short answer, one that does not require understanding how it
> all works? One thing I like about Cygwin is that I don't have to learn
> anything about Windows. So far I've always been able to get rid of
> intractable Windows files using Cygwin with chmod 777 and chown, but
> this seems to be an example where that won't work.

There might be a "shortcut" solution but that doesn't help in finding
the root of the problem.  In essence, your '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group'
files don't know the Windows group and user ID (SID).  These files are
created by '/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh'.  Since I don't know how to
reproduce what's been reported, I can't offer anything more than WAGs at
possible solutions that would cure the symptoms.  But I'd prefer to see
more  information that would help to clarify and resolve the actual problem.
Any chance you could file a problem report that might help in that regard?

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

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A: Yes.
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