chmod: Permission denied

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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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