On Jun 8 17:47, Vasiliy wrote: > chown --recursive <owner> *.* doesn't change ownership for all files, Wrong pattern. *.* doesn't match files without dot. Try chmod -R * .* Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple