unknown owner 4294967295 should be Adminstrators

[Ken Jackson]

> How to chown all files from 4294967295:18 to 544:18 or, at least, recognize
> the files to be owned by "Administrators".
>
> chown -R ... would not work because it will chown all files. Also the files
> not owned by 4294967295.
>
> chown -vR --from=4294967295:18 Adminstrators:SYSTEM ...
> chown: invalid user: `4294967295:18'
I don't have a cygwin system handy to test at the moment, but I think this will work.

find . -uid 4294967295 -exec chown Administrators {} +


BTW, did you notice that that number is suspiciously equal to 0xFFFFFFFF?

-Ken Jackson

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