chmod: Permission denied

[Sam Steingold]

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)?

thanks.

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[Igor Peshansky]

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?
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[Sam Steingold]

> * Igor Pechtchanski <crpugpun@...> [2005-11-07 13:58:16 -0500]:
>
> 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?

you mean chmod?
I fixed the login domain in /etc/passwd, nothing changed
- how do I tell cygwin to re-read /etc/passwd?
I killed all cygwin processes, but this did not help
(I guess I have to manually unload cydwin1.dll)

Thanks!

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[Igor Peshansky]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Sam Steingold wrote:

> > * Igor Pechtchanski <crpugpun@...> [2005-11-07 13:58:16 -0500]:
> >
> > 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?
>
> you mean chmod?

Nope, I meant "chown".  If the old owner of the file is defunct, the new
user might as well take ownership -- that should also allow changing
permissions.

> I fixed the login domain in /etc/passwd, nothing changed
> - how do I tell cygwin to re-read /etc/passwd?

This should happen automatically -- no need to restart things.

> I killed all cygwin processes, but this did not help
> (I guess I have to manually unload cydwin1.dll)

Did you also fix the SID?  I suggest doing a

mkpasswd -d -u YOURUSER YOURNEWDOMAIN >> /etc/passwd

and then renaming the old user in /etc/passwd to something like
"YOURUSER_old".  You can make the appropriate changes to the home
directory and login shell fields, as needed.
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