Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/19/17:34:27
At 12:22 PM 9/19/2005, you wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Larry Hall
>>Sent: 19 September 2005 03:50
>
>> At 12:28 PM 9/17/2005, you wrote:
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Krister Svanlund <oooooooooops@>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Larry? You know what I'm about to say, so I won't even say it! :)
Yep, good point. Of course, Krister already exposed his email address in
his message so at least I'm only guilty of additive exposure rather than the
more grievous first offense. :-)
> I think the problem is actually more likely to be that reinstalling the OS
>on top of the existing system will have generated an entirely new machine
>SID and hence new user account SIDs, and so all the ACLs on the old files
>from before the reinstall will be related to SIDs that no longer make any
>sense at all to the security subsystem.
Yeah, you're right. When I first read the posting, I didn't interpret
the reinstall as an install over an existing one. If that is what was
done, your recipe should work well.
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Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com
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