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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:49:37 -0400
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From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Lost user/group permissions after reinstallation of   Cygwin
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At 12:28 PM 9/17/2005, you wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Krister Svanlund <adsummodo AT gmail DOT com>
>Date: Sep 17, 2005 5:22 PM
>Subject: Lost user/group permissions after reinstallation of Cygwin
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>
>
>I have major problems here, I reinstalled my computer, and while doing
>this i removed cygwin (except for my home directory) and when i later
>reinstalled cygwin its all fubar. I don't have permission to read,
>write, execute, delete, rename, flush down the toilet or anything...
>on certain files atleast. As I have noticed all the user and group
>settings for the files are set to question marks (? that is).
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to this problem, or maybe someone has a
>similar problem and want to curse together, both works for me.


Please, send only one copy of each message to the list.  

 From your general description it sounds like 
'/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh' didn't run.  Check if this file exists
or if one with the suffix of ".done" exists.  If the latter, run the 
script and rename it with the ".done" suffix.  Otherwise, check your 
'/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files to see if your user name and group
are in these files.  If not, read 'man mkpasswd' and 'man mkgroup' to 
find out how to generate the files to contain the info you need.

If none of that works or is your problem, then please read and follow
the problem reporting guidelines at:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html



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