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Re: How to update after a change of user?
- From: Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:40:57 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: Re: How to update after a change of user?
On 20 Oct, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Try 'chown'ing to Administrators.SYSTEM (note the "s") instead of
> Administrator.SYSTEM (i.e., "chown 544:18"). That way, anyone in the
> Administrators group will be able to manipulate the files. You'll need to
> carefully exclude ~/.ssh and some other stuff (better yet, don't change
> anything not owned by the installing user -- see chown's --from flag).
Ah! That sounds perfect. Many thanks, Igor.
luke
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