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 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:40:22 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Sam Steingold cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod: Permission denied In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Sam Steingold wrote: > > * Igor Pechtchanski [2005-11-07 13:58:16 -0500]: > > > > 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? > > you mean chmod? Nope, I meant "chown". If the old owner of the file is defunct, the new user might as well take ownership -- that should also allow changing permissions. > I fixed the login domain in /etc/passwd, nothing changed > - how do I tell cygwin to re-read /etc/passwd? This should happen automatically -- no need to restart things. > I killed all cygwin processes, but this did not help > (I guess I have to manually unload cydwin1.dll) Did you also fix the SID? I suggest doing a mkpasswd -d -u YOURUSER YOURNEWDOMAIN >> /etc/passwd and then renaming the old user in /etc/passwd to something like "YOURUSER_old". You can make the appropriate changes to the home directory and login shell fields, as needed. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/