Hi Andrey. On Saturday, January 25, 2025 07:22 AM, Andrey Repin expressed: > > > takeown /R /F c:\cygwin64\* > > Eh. That was absolutely unnecessary. Given the path, you most likely had it > installed with administrator rights. Thus no need to adjust permissions on > whole tree. > Only your /home/$USER directory would need to be chown'ed, and that can be > done using cygwin's own tools from elevated shell.
Thanks. That is one of the problem: I am not an administrator of that machine. And I tried chown first, which worked within the /home directory. But, the installation was still owned by the old user. I even reinstalled all picked packages, and the ownership of the installation was still the old user. Anyway, next time I will take more time to give it more thought. But, I was under a time constraint. I appreciate your input always. josé -- 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
