Cygwin - file ownership changes unexpectedly from Administrator to cron_server
Hi Everyone,
Not sure where to post but I am completely lost and need help urgently. Hope you guys can provide me the solution.
I have Windows XP on my machine and was working fine with all the softwares. Today I installed "cygwin" on my machine and was playing with it. I am not sure what command I fired which caused this issue BUT my administrator user is now changed to "cron_server" (I was installing cron service from cygwin)
When I rebooted my machine, the administrator user is replaced with "cron_server". I can login fine, but everything is changed as if it is a new machine. Data is safe but here is the ownership from cygwin:
These are assigned recursively to all the files/folders on the system. Before it was:
Administrator:None
Please help me to get my machine into original state.
I know this is a long post but this is the only way I could explain things.
Last edited by radoulov; 03-09-2010 at 07:48 AM..
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