Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! > Andrey Repin writes:
>> Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! >> >>> Good news: My cygwin file tree survived a Windows (10) reinstall >>> Not-so-good news: I have a new SID, so not only do I not own those files >>> any more (that's easily fixed), but I don't have the permissions I >>> should, because they are now held by some miscellaneous old SID. >> >> So, what? Go to top directory properties, Advanced, Owner tab, Change, and >> change the owner to what is desired. > Much to glib an answer. Changing the owner is the _last_ thing you want > to do after (programmatically) changing a bunch of ACLs. Much like in POSIX, ACL and ownership are not directly dependent one on another in Windows. I don't understand your statement. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, July 4, 2016 06:25:58 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
