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From: "Mike Maxwell" <maxwell AT ldc DOT upenn DOT edu>
Subject: Re: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:05:59 -0400
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DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> You may need to get permission to temporarily logon as a local admin
> and then change the owner of all of the directories under cygwin.
> As almost all of my directories and files seem to be owned by
> admins.mkgroup.  See if you can change the ownership to the Power User
> group or something else that you are a member of.

That may be, but it won't happen quickly--our sys admin people are trying to
put out fires resulting from the break-in.  I won't try to say what I think
of whoever broke in...
-- 
    Mike Maxwell
    Linguistic Data Consortium
    NomaxwellSpam at ldc dot upenn dot edu




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