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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050919172847.04e79bd8@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:33:48 -0400 To: "Dave Korn" , "'Cygwin List'" From: Larry Hall Subject: RE: Fwd: Lost user/group permissions after reinstallation of Cygwin In-Reply-To: References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050918224219.04e79bd8@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/