On 12/7/2017 2:50 AM, 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. > 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). > 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?
What happens if you simply remove /etc/passwd and /etc/group files? A change long ago caused these files to not be needed. You may need to take ownership of the directories and their files at the Windows system level. -- cyg Simple -- 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
