On Jun 28 11:04, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Good news: My cygwin file tree survived a Windows (10) reinstall > Not-so-good news: I have a new SID, so not only do I not own those files > any more (that's easily fixed), but I don't have the permissions I > should, because they are now held by some miscellaneous old SID. > > In fact I see _two_ raw SIDs when I look at the security tab for any > directory in the old cygwin tree: one has Full control, and the other > just Read & execute. > > I presume the first is the old me, what's the second? > > Can this be easily fixed, i.e. put me back where I used to be?
Off the top of my head, what you could do is this: - Generate an /etc/passwd entry for your old user SID by hand. Make sure to use an arbitrary weird UID like 98765. - Exit and start an elevated shell. - find . -uid 98765 | xargs chown <newuser name or UID> Analog for the group if necessary. Alternativaly there are tools in the wild to change the SID of a file. But those *might* break Cygwin POSIX ACLs. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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