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Re: system account files mystery
- From: Andrew Louie <louiea at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:42:26 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: system account files mystery
- References: <7626013.post@talk.nabble.com>
dsacks <dennis <at> calico-consulting.com> writes:
>
>
> wait, if I try to vi /etc/sshd_config now I cannot write it, because it is
> owned by SYSTEM and has restrictive rights.
>
> How do I edit system files now? I don't really grok the permission world in
> cygwin and how unixy permissions and users map to windows.
Did you try chown your_user_id /etc/sshd_config ? to change the ownership to you
so you can edit it?
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