Can't Delete Home Directory - Unknown+User:Unknown+Group
Tatsuro MATSUOKA
tmacchant2@yahoo.co.jp
Sat Jul 2 23:35:00 GMT 2016
----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce Halco
> To: cygwin
> Cc:
> Date: 2016/7/2, Sat 06:28
> Subject: Can't Delete Home Directory - Unknown+User:Unknown+Group
>
> I don't know how this happened, and it was probably self-inflicted, but one
> of the home directories in a new cygwin install has wound up owned by
> Unknown+User and Unknown+Group, with permissions 750.
>
> Opening the cygwin window "As Administrator" will not allow me to
> remove the directory or change ownership, with "Permission denied"
>
> Attempts to take ownership in windows also fail with permission errors.
> That's normal in my experience.
>
> This is installed on Win7 Pro 64-bit.
>
> I've done quite a few cygwin installs and rarely had more than minor
> problems. I'd have no objection to wiping this install and starting over,
> but of course I'm stuck at the "wipe" part.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
Similar thing happened to me on windows 10.
I executed
$ cygstart --action=runas rm (dir name)
solved the issue.
HTH
Tatsuro
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