chown in vista not work because of permission denied

[Matthias Meyer]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On May  3 00:26, Matthias Meyer wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a cygwin 1.5.25 installation on a vista client.
>> I can access the vista client by ssh. For that I use an account
>> called "backup".
>> 
>> I want use the ssh account for backup/restore with rsync.
>> The Backup work well but the restore not :-(
>> The files from a restore are owned by the ssh-account and not by the
>> original user.
> 
> That's an UAC induced problem.  Should work fine with Cygwin 1.7.

Fine. So I will try cygwin 1.7.

> The other alternative is to switch off UAC entirely.
Not the best of all ideas ;-)
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 
Thanks
Matthias
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