admin sees another file-owner as a normal user

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 4/22/2011 12:27 PM, Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've installed cygwin V1.7.5 within Windows7 SP1.
>> Curiously a file seems to have two different owners. Depends on the
>> account which list the file.
>>
>>
>> If I run a cmd as a normal user and list file:
>> C:\>ls -lh /
>> drwxrwx---+  1 ????????       Administrators  16K 2011-04-22 10:46 bin
>> C:\>ls -lhn /
>> drwxrwx---+  1 4294967295 544  16K 2011-04-22 10:46 bin
>>
>> If I run a cmd as administrator and list file:
>> C:\>ls -lh /
>> drwxrwx---+  1 Backup         Administrators  16K 2011-04-22 10:46 bin
>> C:\>ls -lhn /
>> drwxrwx---+  1 1033 544  16K 2011-04-22 10:46 bin
>>
>>
>> I haven't any problem because of this behaviour but I want understand what
>> happens their.
>>
>> Thanks for any hint
>> Matthias
>
> Damned!!
> I'm looking around this since 3 days. Today I write this mail to you and
> 5min later I am stumbling about the solution.
> Should I laugh or cry?
>
> As normal user "grep 1033 /etc/passwd" don't deliver a result. So I removed
> /etc/passwd.
> After this the misterious was removed too. It seems there was two files
> /etc/passwd on the same place. An old one (without the user 1033) and the
> actual one.
>
> Anyone knows how it is possible to have one file two times?

My guess is the "old" file was not readable by the "normal" user but was
for a user with administrative privileges.  Same file, different access.


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Larry

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