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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Sylvain RICHARD wrote:
>   
>> I have to say that I agree with cgf.  I should have looked in the FAQ
>> before, it would have saved some typing.  I have had exactly the same
>> issue before and perhaps didn't find the answer at that time.  People
>> who come from a UNIX background tend to use chown or chmod but may have
>> already deleted chown.exe and chmod.exe.  Perhaps adding the exact
>> cacls invocation in the FAQ would be helpful
>>     
>
> Good point.  Do you (or anyone) want to suggest some wording for that
> section of the FAQ?
>
> cgf
>   
Not fully tested as I do not have full control over the machine I work 
on now, but something along the lines of:
- run
takeown /f c:\cygwin /a /r /d y
cacls c:\cygwin0 /t /g Administrators:F
- delete c:\cygwin in Explorer
should be a start.

However,
1) This is for English versions of Windows only:
/d y (answer "yes") can become /d o("oui"), and perhaps /d j("ja"), /d 
s("si"),...
"Administrators" is localized too

2)
http://www.ss64.com/nt/cacls.html says:
"Errors when changing permissions
If a user or group has a permission on a file or folder and you grant a 
second permission to the same user/group on the same folder, NTFS will 
sometimes produce the error message "The parameter is incorrect" To fix 
this (or prevent it happening) revoke the permission first (/e /r) and 
then reapply (/e /g)"

Good night

Sylvain RICHARD

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