"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> writes: > > Ownerships won't change. You're only telling Cygwin that the name > to display for your user is "MEAD8998" rather than "paul". The user > id (or SID in Windows) will not change (and you shouldn't change it > in '/etc/passwd'). This is all "details" but since you asked the > question, I figured the details where what you wanted. ;-) Thanks Larry, I'll avoid changing the file in that case.
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