Repairing permissions after windows reinstall

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Henry S. Thompson!

> Good news: My cygwin file tree survived a Windows (10) reinstall
> Not-so-good news: I have a new SID, so not only do I not own those files
> any more (that's easily fixed), but I don't have the permissions I
> should, because they are now held by some miscellaneous old SID.

So, what? Go to top directory properties, Advanced, Owner tab, Change, and
change the owner to what is desired.

> In fact I see _two_ raw SIDs when I look at the security tab for any
> directory in the old cygwin tree: one has Full control, and the other
> just Read & execute.

> I presume the first is the old me, what's the second?

If you write these SID's it would be easier to tell.

> Can this be easily fixed, i.e. put me back where I used to be?

As Corinna said, this can be fixed, you just have to fake a valid UID for old
user to jumpstart the process.
Obviously, you would need to run the script as administrator account to work
on the permissions changes.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, July 1, 2016 08:55:58

Sorry for my terrible english...


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