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Re: chmod: Permission denied
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Sam Steingold <sds at gnu dot org>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:58:16 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: chmod: Permission denied
- References: <uk6fkuwju.fsf@gnu.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Sam Steingold wrote:
> my windows login domain has changed and now I cannot chmod the files
> that I created when I was logged in using my previous login domain.
> how can I fix this?
> do I need to do
> find . -exec 'cp -p {} {}.new; mv {}.new {}' \;
> (or something)?
After you update your /etc/passwd, does "chown" work?
Igor
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