Re: chgrp in Windows

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 25 02:49, lemkemch@t-online.de wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:35:50 +0100 Andrey Repin wrote:
> >>>>>>> The result of chown I can see in Windows Explorer as the Owner but where is the group information?
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> ItÃs over on the Security tab of the same window youÃre looking at: ÃGroup or user namesÃ.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I just remembered that that tab isnÃt always visible.  If youÃre running a Ãhomeà version of Windows, thereÃs a pretty good chance you donÃt even see this tab.
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks for that.  I first thought that's it.  I am on XP Pro so this
> >>>> doesn't seem to apply.  I do see the security tab 
> >>>> if that is what you mean.   But the 'Group or user names' box only selects
> >>>> for which user/group I want to modify 
> >>>> the permissions, doesn't it?  I don't want to modify or look at permissions.
> >>>
> >>>> I am actually looking for the information I see in ls -l as the group, i.e. column #4.
> >>>
> >>>> I am trying to fix a completely hosed file system and seem to have quite a
> >>>> bit of trouble with that...  Something's still missing.
> >>>
> >>>If you mean Cygwin system, reinstall would be a faster way.
> >
> >> Unfortunately, it's the whole PC, which is also the reason why I have to use this terrible webmailer, sorry.
> >
> >Then there's an article on Microsoft KB explaining the way to re-initialize
> >the default permissions on system folders.
> >
> >However, this is an off-topic here.
> >
> 
> Absolutely. So let's stick to this question:
> 
> How to do the equivalent of chgrp with Windows means?

Not with Windows on-board tools, and it shouldn't even be necessary.
The primary group entry has *no* relevance for native Windows tools,
thus its setting is irrelevant.  What really counts is the owner and
the DACL.


Corinna

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