On Jul 4 06:27, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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.
Bzz. POSIX ACLs maintain the concept of owner ACE and group ACE. They *are* distinguished from the ACEs of other users and groups in an ACL. The fact that Windows ACLs don't do that is a real downside. Not a bug per se, but ugly. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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