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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Mike Maxwell" Subject: Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:05:59 -0400 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <03C99898510C8C47945B932907D99AAA16EF56@E2KMEMMCS1.ftbco.ftn.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 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 User > group or something else that you are a member of. That may be, but it won't happen quickly--our sys admin people are trying to put out fires resulting from the break-in. I won't try to say what I think of whoever broke in... -- Mike Maxwell Linguistic Data Consortium NomaxwellSpam at ldc dot upenn dot edu -- 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/