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Re: chgrp in Windows
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "lemkemch at t-online dot de" <lemkemch at t-online dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 04:22:48 +0300
- Subject: Re: chgrp in Windows
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, lemkemch@t-online.de!
>>>>>> The result of chown I can see in Windows Explorer as the Owner but where is the group information?
>>>>>
>>>>> ItÃs over on the Security tab of the same window youÃre looking at: ÃGroup or user namesÃ.
>>>>
>>>>I just remembered that that tab isnÃt always visible. If youÃre running a Ãhomeà version of Windows, thereÃs a pretty good chance you donÃt even see this tab.
>>
>>> Thanks for that. I first thought that's it. I am on XP Pro so this
>>> doesn't seem to apply. I do see the security tab
>>> if that is what you mean. But the 'Group or user names' box only selects
>>> for which user/group I want to modify
>>> the permissions, doesn't it? I don't want to modify or look at permissions.
>>
>>> I am actually looking for the information I see in ls -l as the group, i.e. column #4.
>>
>>> I am trying to fix a completely hosed file system and seem to have quite a
>>> bit of trouble with that... Something's still missing.
>>
>>If you mean Cygwin system, reinstall would be a faster way.
> Unfortunately, it's the whole PC, which is also the reason why I have to use this terrible webmailer, sorry.
Then there's an article on Microsoft KB explaining the way to re-initialize
the default permissions on system folders.
However, this is an off-topic here.
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 25.02.2015, <04:21>
Sorry for my terrible english...