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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:05:28 +1000
From: Wes Barris <wesb AT wesbarris DOT com>
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Pavel Kudrna wrote:
> Wes Barris wrote:
>> On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote:
>>
>>     I have installed cygwin on many systems.  
> ...
>> a long listing of my home directory shows a bunch of '?' question marks
>> as the owner and group fields like this:
>>
>>     drwxrwxrwt+ 1 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-01-10 17:13 Projects
> If you used Sysprep utility to clone to many PCs the problem is missing 
> right for System account in / and below, see
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00485.html>
> I have solved the problem by adding rights with the command
> cacls "C:\Program Files\cygwin" /T /E /G SYSTEM:F
> before running sysprep. After that minisetup (running under System 
> account) can correct old SID in ACLs also in cygwin directories and 
> question marks disappear.
> With greetings
> Pavel Kudrna

Hi Pavel,

I don't think that I understood anything you said.  I've never run
something called "Sysprep" (whatever that is).  Are you suggesting
that I need to run "cacls ..."?  What exactly will that do?
-- 
Wes Barris

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