On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Luke Kendall wrote:
>
> > find `cygpath -m /` -xdev -user $USER -print \
> > | tr "\n" "\000" \
> > | xargs -0 chown Administrators.SYSTEM
>
> You can use -print0, and since find is a cygwin application I don't see
> what the point of using cygpath is:
>
> find / -xdev -user $USER -print0 | xargs -0 chown Administrators.SYSTEM
Both of us have neglected the same pitfall:
find / -xdev -user "$USER" -print0 | xargs -0 chown Administrators.SYSTEM
> Though I would be tempted just to do "chown -R / ..."
You must mean 'chown -R --from="$USER" ...' :-)
> or even better, just set the desired ACL on c:\cygwin before installing
> and let it be inherited.
That doesn't change the owner, though. One may want to allow only users
with administrative privileges to modify system programs, in which case a
chown does make sense.
Igor
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