chmod cannot change group permission on Cygwin

Question

I am using Cygwin and trying to change the group access permission with chmod, e.g.

$ls -l id_rsa
-rwxrwxr-- 1 None 1679 Jun 13 10:16 id_rsa 

$ chmod g= id_         


        

Answer 1

You must specify the group name on the Windows system which your user belongs to.

So I just did this: chown -R ONEX:Users ~/*

You can find your user name and group here: