After couple bad experiences I would suggest you not to run serious stuff on Cygwin. Anyways can you post the /etc/passwd file in Cygwin, that's the guy usually create this user confusion. Kosala On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Danny Kutner <getisboy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just got OpenSSH running through Cygwin and there are some ownership > issues. It seems that any file I create over ssh is then owned by the > host user (DELL4550\Family), not the client computer > (DELLNOTEBOOK05\Family). This creates problems when running backup > programs that utilize ssh. > > Is there a way to correct this? > Thanks. > > -- > - Danny > -- Kosala -------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: Views expressed in this mail are my personal views and they would not reflect views of the employer. -------------------------------------------- blog.kosala.net www.linux.lk/~kosala/ www.kosala.net