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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:33:48 -0400
To: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>, "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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 12:22 PM 9/19/2005, you wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Larry Hall
>>Sent: 19 September 2005 03:50
>
>> At 12:28 PM 9/17/2005, you wrote:
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Krister Svanlund <oooooooooops@>
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>  Larry?  You know what I'm about to say, so I won't even say it!  :)


Yep, good point.  Of course, Krister already exposed his email address in 
his message so at least I'm only guilty of additive exposure rather than the 
more grievous first offense. :-)
 




>  I think the problem is actually more likely to be that reinstalling the OS
>on top of the existing system will have generated an entirely new machine
>SID and hence new user account SIDs, and so all the ACLs on the old files
>from before the reinstall will be related to SIDs that no longer make any
>sense at all to the security subsystem.


Yeah, you're right.  When I first read the posting, I didn't interpret 
the reinstall as an install over an existing one.  If that is what was 
done, your recipe should work well.


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