Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! > 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.
So, what? Go to top directory properties, Advanced, Owner tab, Change, and change the owner to what is desired. > 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? If you write these SID's it would be easier to tell. > Can this be easily fixed, i.e. put me back where I used to be? As Corinna said, this can be fixed, you just have to fake a valid UID for old user to jumpstart the process. Obviously, you would need to run the script as administrator account to work on the permissions changes. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, July 1, 2016 08:55:58 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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