bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

[Lennart Borgman]

On 9/5/08, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Francis Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:08:36 -0400
> > Cc:
> >
> > But if Windows says the file is owned by the Local Administrators group,
> > hasn't the information about which user created it been lost?  The file
> > is not truly owned by any single user.
> >
> > Thus, (nth 2 (file-attributes ...)) can never return a meaningful
> > existing user ID for a file that is owned by a group.
>
> Well, that's the problem we are trying to solve...

I think Stefan is suggesting what I suggested before: Change the owner.

But that does not necessarily help since it is the ACL lists that
tells who has access to the directory, not the owner.

Some comments on what is going on there so we can move forward to a
reasonable suggestion?