X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4917C3CC.2090907@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:17:00 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc8 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question Regarding Known_Hosts file References: <7615752e0811092040m1c212717u92df72beb127eb2d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7615752e0811092040m1c212717u92df72beb127eb2d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Andy Molina wrote: > For a couple of days now I've been trying to completely remote the > Cygwin client from my home computer as I acquired another box to put > the SSH services onto. I've been able to finally get into the > C:/cygwin/var/empty/.ssh directory which used to be restricted before, > but now I've only gotten into the directory to find out that the file > Known_Hosts is only readable to Admin/my account and Read and Write > priveleges are set to an Uknown Account. I am running Windows Vista , > and please help me as this is frustrating me and I don't want to > reinstall Windows just because of this one file. I've attempted to > give read and write permissions to every one, to administrator > accounts, etc... but it wont let me. Sounds like you're trying to use files directly on your old machine from your Vista machine. As you know, ssh is quite picky about permissions and as you've found, Vista is pickier than XP about permissions. ;-) One option is to copy the files over to the Vista machine. Otherwise, have you tried taking ownership of the files/directories using the Windows permissions tab? Once you own them, Vista will let you do what you want with them. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/