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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:46:07 -0700
From: <briand@pounceofcats.com>
To: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
Subject: Re: need to fix permissions
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:49:30 -0600
Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:34 PM <briand@...> wrote:
> 
> the cygwin home folder is giving me a LOT of trouble with access denied.
> >
> > i've tried takeown and icacls to fix permissions, and strangely it worked
> > for _Some_ files, but i still have files which i need to back up which are
> > causing "access denied" errors.
> >
> > i'm hoping someone who understands how cygwin has set permissions can give
> > me a way to fix-up the permissions in ntfs land.
> >  
> 
> The following is what I have used successfully in the past and should reset
> everything:
> 
> 1. Open an elevated PowerShell or cmd.exe shell
> 
> 2. Take ownership to Administrators group:
> 
> takeown /F "C:\cygwin" /A /R /D Y
> 
> 3. Reset all file permissions:
> 
> icacls "C:\cygwin" /reset /T /C
> 
> 4. Reset the file attributes:
> 
> attrib -h -r -s "C:cygwin\*" /s
> 

Thank you very much !

I didn't see anybody mention that attrib step, in all the _many_ docs that i read.


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Brian

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