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Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:58:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: chmod: Permission denied
In-Reply-To:	<uk6fkuwju.fsf@gnu.org>
Message-ID:	<Pine.GSO.4.63.0511071357550.847@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Sam Steingold wrote:

> my windows login domain has changed and now I cannot chmod the files
> that I created when I was logged in using my previous login domain.
> how can I fix this?
> do I need to do
> find . -exec 'cp -p {} {}.new; mv {}.new {}' \;
> (or something)?

After you update your /etc/passwd, does "chown" work?
	Igor
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