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No, that didn't occur to me - and it seems to work. How does the permission
system work?!

Thank you very much for the info.

Dennis 



Andrew Louie wrote:
> 
> dsacks <dennis <at> calico-consulting.com> writes:
> 
>> 
> 
>> 
>> wait, if I try to vi /etc/sshd_config now I cannot write it, because it
>> is
>> owned by SYSTEM and has restrictive rights.
>> 
>> How do I edit system files now? I don't really grok the permission world
>> in
>> cygwin and how unixy permissions and users map to windows. 
> 
> Did you try chown your_user_id /etc/sshd_config ? to change the ownership
> to you
> so you can edit it?
> 
> 
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