Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" To: Subject: RE: W2K files locked after reinstall [PREVIOUS POST BAD TOPIC - SORRY] Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:47:27 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <006b01c33243$94eea010$7b00a8c0@davebox> Importance: Normal > From: "Dave Fletcher" > To: > > Hello all. > > > > This week I have had to reinstall Windows 2000 (due to a > problem unrelated > > to Cygwin) and was suprised to find files in my Windows home directory > (SSH > > stuff) and in my cygwin home still owned by the previous user with the > same > > name. I cannot delete or modify these files, even logged in as > > Administrator. Tried "chown -R" as Administrator, and that still did not > > seem to help. Of course, I also checked the regular Windows GUI but even > as Search the archives subject: Some useful permission setting scripts date: 2003-06-11(?) Might help, or at least give some hints. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, 59~14'N, 17~12'E ~ <=> degree -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/