Tod sent the following at Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:01 AM >I've migrated to Win7 and basically just copied over my existing cygwin >install over to the new drive. Things are working but my user account >has changed so I'm getting an error saying my homedir is owned by >someone else. I can still do work but I'd like to get this corrected. >Can someone point me in the right direction?
I don't know but here are some guesses based on advice given by others in the past. (This is from memory - I have not searched the archives.) My main guess is that when you copied C:\cygwin, the old file/directory ownerships were copied. It would be useful to know if $ ls -ld ~ and $ ls -l ~ lists your old user account or some intermediate (copying) user account as owner(s). If so, might something like the following work? $ chown --recursive YOUR_NEW_USER_ACCOUNT ~ or $ chown --recursive YOUR_NEW_USER_ACCOUNT /cygdrive/c/cygwin Note: I've no chown experience; use at your own risk. Running mkpasswd and mkgroup again might help. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup etc. Although this would affect the ownership problem, you might check environmental variables inherited from Windows, especially CYGWIN, are as they were on your old machine. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html Good luck, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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