On 2022-05-08 10:35, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Brent Epp!
I recently (finally) installed Windows 10 on my system (clean install).
All of my files are stored in on a secondary drive/partition, on which
cygwin is also installed. I expected to be able to just pick up where I
left off, but I'm getting all sorts of permissions issues with cygwin. I
did run the cygwin setup again to reinstall/upgrade.
First, I had restore my cygwin home directory from a backup, since it was
giving me permissions errors on .bash_history, .ssh, etc, but the biggest
headache is with git repos. First, it gives a "fatal: unsafe repository"
error. If I add it to the safe directories list, it git still has to
reindex the repo every time I run `git status`, and it still fails when I try
to enter a commit.
It seems most or everything is owned by "Administrators". The only way
I've been able to fix this is to go through the Windows advanced permissions
dialog, change the owner to my user, and set all sub-objects to inheritable
permissions, but I'm very leery about mass changes like this.
Why did this happen? And is there a better/safer/correct way to fix this?
The only way is to install a clean copy of Cygwin and carefully copy your
changes over. This will ensure that all permissions are set correctly, and all
programs are rebased correctly as well.
This is because Windows uses a very different file access control that that of
simple POSIX permissions, on top of which Cygwin emulates them.
If you want your pain to be somewhat less in the future, move your home away
from Cygwin directory and use noacl flag on it, which will defer permissions
control to the underlying OS layer.
I'm using my Windows profile as Cygwin home, but your mileage may vary.
Thanks, I did try a clean install of cygwin. This has not resolved the
issue.
I think what's happened is that some of all files modified by by various
command line programs (git, rsync, etc.) in cygwin have ended up with
permissions that didn't carry across with the new Windows installation.
In the [Security] tab for these files or directories, under "Group or
user names", it lists the owner as "Account Unknown(S-...)". In some
cases, these files are completely inaccessible and I can't even take
ownership or change the permissions. I have to either restore them from
a backup or boot to a Linux environment to access them.
- Brent
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