On Thursday, January 23, 2025 02:47 PM, Bill Stewart expressed: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM Jose I Cabrera wrote: > > My windows account just changed from e608313 to u618346 and I would like to > > use the old setup that I had on the old account under the new account in > > cygwin. How is this possible? Thanks. > > > > This may be possible by using the native Windows icacls tool. Running > 'icacls /?' shows the following: > > ICACLS name /save aclfile [/T] [/C] [/L] [/Q] > > Stores the DACLs for the files and folders that match the name into aclfile > for later use with /restore. Note that SACLs, owner, or integrity labels > are not saved. > > ICACLS directory [/substitute SidOld SidNew [...]] /restore aclfile [/C] > [/L] [/Q] > > Applies the stored DACLs to files in directory. > > I don't know if icacls reorders ACEs in ACLs (messing up cygwin's > permissions). You would need to test.
I looked into this, but I ran, takeown /R /F c:\cygwin64\* which sounded like what I wanted, but it damaged the installation. gcc didn't work after that, but it was running before. Anyway, I took a picture of the packages I had installed, and started from scratch. Thanks for the support. I should have had, perhaps, done the icacls. But, one learns every day. :-) -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
