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Old 03-08-2010
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:

Code:
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 17:25 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 17:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 19:12 .ssh
-rw-r--r--  1 cron_server mkpasswd   57 2010-03-08 18:11 Cygwin.bat
-rw-r--r--  1 cron_server mkpasswd 7022 2010-03-08 18:11 Cygwin.ico
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 18:06 bin
d--x--x--x  6 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2006-12-01 05:30 cygdrive
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 18:08 dev
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 17:26 etc
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 18:06 home
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 18:06 lib
dr-xr-xr-x 10 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2006-12-01 05:30 proc
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 18:06 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 18:06 usr
drwxr-xr-x  1 cron_server mkpasswd    0 2010-03-08 17:25 var

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.. Reason: scottn: Code tags; radoulov: fixed the title
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Old 03-25-2010
Check to see if there is an entry in your password file for both accounts, cron_server and administrator.

If both are there, check the uid to see if they are the same number - that may be the issue. Pick one and change the uid to something not used.
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