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Re: chmod: Permission denied


> * Igor Pechtchanski <crpugpun@pf.alh.rqh> [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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