Re: Permissions problems after domain change

[Chuck <skilover at bluebottle dot com>]

Herb Martin wrote:
>>>>>> My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to 
>> another. Now when I
>>>>>> log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access 
>> some of my own
>>>>>> files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone 
>> tell me what I
>>>>>> need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all
>>>>>> question marks when I do an "ls -l". Can anyone help me 
>> fix this? TIA.
> 
> For file permissions one issue is that your OLD domain
> account is not the same as your NEW account (even if the
> names are the same of course.)
> 
> There is a (fairly tedious) tool available on Windows
> for fixing such problems "SubInACL.exe"  (I read it as
> (SUBstitute INstead a differenc ACL or permission".)
> 
> It's a pain to use but quite powerful important when 
> a machine changes domains and the old users and groups
> no longer have access.
> 
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I ended up doing what Larry suggested and recreated the group and passwd
files. Then I did a "find $HOME -user olduser | xargs chown
newuser:newgroup" to regain access on everything. I could have acl'ed
the files but since I don't intend to use the old domain account after a
few days I figured "why bother?".

Thanks for all help.


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