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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem Running Apache through Cygwin
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:03:29 -0700
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Dave Fletcher wrote:

>Hello all.
>
>This week I have had to reinstall Windows 2000 (due to a problem unrelated
>to Cygwin) and was suprised to find files in my Windows home directory (SSH
>stuff) and in my cygwin home still owned by the previous user with the same
>name. I cannot delete or modify these files, even logged in as
>Administrator. Tried "chown -R" as Administrator, and that still did not
>seem to help. Of course, I also checked the regular Windows GUI but even as
>Administrator the controls for changing user settings are disabled. I
>checked the FAQ and docs, but an easy answer does not seem to present
>itself.
>
>Any ideas? Thanks,
>  
>
Try taking over ownership as Administrator first. Make sure you OK all 
the property dialog boxes. Then reopen the property dialog box and go to 
the Security tab. You should be able to set things then.



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