X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:subject:reply-to:to:references:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=guKbkf5V+IWXnHdA zaIz10P2bIVkwu0sDP+4JUZJMd0cHSwAgz0LEuDU5E6AhL6z3PorsY12hK+/ATz7 /kuH0YgDWfSgTIOc2bCyGt0PSLCGpo3zXjpO2Gxj0iQcR7+/zsQVQqYeRrKFV7BB Wi8QyoKtCNwzOT548HzmGZfAFMk= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:subject:reply-to:to:references:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=L9iEKBQuMn28THkkUQyil1 HUVCA=; b=J/yqCWAHlFV7iwn7HbaxHUkAh95KtjJU+AeYulnFil+TkBlbKTOsf/ OI5lIrvzTGBq1I5PZsVNVJdVclEA46qJ+aA/+hPSFndePKcQdkQLZYj4l5NXaYTE EI5RmN6ZOPF+7z4+hESJ4TtdpFFbBTomhExkTqIzk2aICowwFfuPA= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=calgary, Alberta, alberta, Calgary X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=JuuBlIwC c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=O0a6LyQiMEY-FOTG0lkA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 From: Brian Inglis Subject: Re: How to handle changed user ID Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <03c139ef-2ef9-e4bb-e8d8-11e8a1e00e9c AT towo DOT net> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:50:48 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <03c139ef-2ef9-e4bb-e8d8-11e8a1e00e9c@towo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfKosJ6fJgYck2MfYz+NMKQYk1i8rwe+aP1hVLSivoz92FL1dEFhR59A7GyQDuHFdUYuB9r+oXLPXXu1aXvvIdGsb1iFFc/o3UexcK5Zp3f9q4vKDxQD4 P67Ou5R/RGD94lR2bN2XFJMpIsZGCYdx7m4MELjcOJ2XusQx9S1aXjGCCKWgDttLWDdpCthWc0tmGQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2017-12-07 00:50, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I had to delete a corrupted Windows account and recreate it. > For cygwin, the new account, although with the same name, has a different > user id. That id is the Cygwin hash of the Windows user id registry key; compare entries from: $ getent passwd ; mkpasswd > Of course, this creates access problems for existing files (even if they > appear to have the same user in ls -l, because the *old user* is still listed > in /etc/passwd). And should be shown if you use: $ ls -n ... > Is there a canonical solution to this problem, other than running > chown -R $USER ~ ? > Can the new user be forced to use the previous user ID? Have you changed all file ownerships in Windows? Have you tried renaming your id files out of the way so that Cygwin uses SAM/AD? $ mv /etc/passwd{,.save} ; mv /etc/group{,.save} I did that a couple of years ago and had no problems since. If you uncommented any lines or made any changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf, comment them out again, if they affect . If that doesn't work, rename the originals out of the way, as above, and run: $ mkpasswd > /etc/passwd ; mkgroup > /etc/group. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple