Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-10 Thread Mike Maxwell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Check out /etc/setup/installed.db (and other files in /etc/setup). So that's where the info is stored! Now I guess what I need to do is run a diff on that file between the old and new installs, and find out what packages are missing in the new install. Thanks for the i

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Mike Maxwell wrote: > This is for anyone else who reads this thread, looking for a solution. > > Mike Maxwell wrote: > > Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? > > In the end, that's what I did: a new install. Unfortunately, I haven't > found every pa

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-10 Thread Mike Maxwell
This is for anyone else who reads this thread, looking for a solution. Mike Maxwell wrote: > Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? In the end, that's what I did: a new install. Unfortunately, I haven't found every package that I had installed previously, so there are t

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Maxwell
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > You may need to get permission to temporarily logon as a local admin > and then change the owner of all of the directories under cygwin. > As almost all of my directories and files seem to be owned by > admins.mkgroup. See if you can change the ownership to the Power Us

Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Maxwell
Bill McCormick wrote: > Did you run mkpasswd and mkgroup after the user name changes? No, I hadn't; thanks for the suggestion, but I'm still unable to do certain things. I ran mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd (as suggested by the man page for mkpasswd), and mkgroup -l > /etc/group (also as per t

RE: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Subject: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo > > > For security reasons, I am no longer an administrator on my > Win2k machine. > (No, I didn't mess up, there's an issue with passwords or something--a > recent break-in.) > > The upshot is that under CygWin, I

RE: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread Bill McCormick
> Short of re-installing CygWin, is there a fix to all this mess? Did you run mkpasswd and mkgroup after the user name changes? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Maxwell
For security reasons, I am no longer an administrator on my Win2k machine. (No, I didn't mess up, there's an issue with passwords or something--a recent break-in.) The upshot is that under CygWin, I can't do a mkdir in the / dir (i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin). $ mkdir foo mkdir: cannot create direc