Wrong file permissions

Eliot Moss moss@cs.umass.edu
Tue Aug 23 14:39:00 GMT 2016


On 8/23/2016 9:41 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Björn Kautler  wrote:

> Your domain user SID will remain the same, however, all of the local
> machine's domain SIDs will be different as it is a different host on
> the domain, so I would expect permissions problems for any/all machine
> specific installations when doing a raw perms copy.
>

> I would imagine all of the *files* are present in the cygwin root, but
> I've never checked, and a simple file copy, even if the adjustments
> are made to result in the correct permissions, will not get things
> like registry entries.  (I don't know how many there are, but do know
> I've seen some).

Thank you, Erik -- you answered better than I could have!  I don't
use a domain login, so the fact that my local SID is different has
been very plain to me!

Regards -- EM

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