On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:35:50 +0100 Andrey Repin wrote: >>>>>>> The result of chown I can see in Windows Explorer as the Owner but >>>>>>> where is the group information? >>>>>> >>>>>> Itâs over on the Security tab of the same window youâre looking at: >>>>>> âGroup or user namesâ. >>>>> >>>>>I just remembered that that tab isnât always visible. If youâre running a >>>>>âhomeâ version of Windows, thereâs a pretty good chance you donât even see >>>>>this tab. >>> >>>> Thanks for that. I first thought that's it. I am on XP Pro so this >>>> doesn't seem to apply. I do see the security tab >>>> if that is what you mean. But the 'Group or user names' box only selects >>>> for which user/group I want to modify >>>> the permissions, doesn't it? I don't want to modify or look at >>>> permissions. >>> >>>> I am actually looking for the information I see in ls -l as the group, >>>> i.e. column #4. >>> >>>> I am trying to fix a completely hosed file system and seem to have quite a >>>> bit of trouble with that... Something's still missing. >>> >>>If you mean Cygwin system, reinstall would be a faster way. > >> Unfortunately, it's the whole PC, which is also the reason why I have to use >> this terrible webmailer, sorry. > >Then there's an article on Microsoft KB explaining the way to re-initialize >the default permissions on system folders. > >However, this is an off-topic here. >
Absolutely. So let's stick to this question: How to do the equivalent of chgrp with Windows means? Thanks, Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------- Profitieren Sie von der sicheren E-Mail-Übertragung Ihrer Daten mit einer kostenlosen E-Mail-Adresse der Telekom. www.t-online.de/email-kostenlos -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
