Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/09/24/03:58:18
What's your system?!
WinNT 3.51, 4 or 5, Win95 or Win98?
---john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com wrote:
>
>
> Can someone point me to an explanation of how Cygwin handles
> permissions, and -- specifically -- how I can get root
permission?
>
> I just ran a-foul of trying to configure a package where
configure
> tests to see if it can find the sources by testing for a
certain file
> to be readable. It turned out that this particluar package had
a lot
> of permissions set to -rw-r-----. Probably this is the case
in a
> number of directories as well as a lot of files in this
directory.
>
> I could try changing all permissions in all directories with
find, but
> it would be a lot cleaner to be able to do an su like I do on
my Linux
> box.
>
> And by the way, how does Cygwin know what the permisions are,
anyhow?
> It appears that this has little if anything I can find in
explorer
> file properties.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Velman
> jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com
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