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Cygwin: Specialized notes
1. Cygwin: Specialized notes
Note: Most students do not need these notes. They are for specialized issues.
2. Sudo in Cygwin
Note: There is no sudo command in Cygwin. To get such access, run Cygwin under Administrator privileges. One way is to right-click on the Cygwin icon and select that option.
3. Unknown user and group
Sometimes files and/or folders are created with the attributes
unknown+user and/or
unknown-group.
Use the windows command getfacl to determine the attribute settings.
One way to fix the settings are as follows.
Run Cygwin under Administrator privileges. One way is to right-click on the Cygwin icon and select that option.
Run the following command to change all files and folders recursively in the home path. Use your userid rather than Robin.
cd /home/Robin
chown -R Robin:None *
4. netpbm
Note: For certain graphics capabilities (e.g., pbmcrop.exe), the netpbm package is needed.
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