Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/09/24/11:53:07
Add `ntea' to the list of values for the CYGWIN32 environment
variable. `ntea' is for NT Extended Attributes. CAUTION: If you have
this set for a FAT on NT then you will get an `EA DATA. SF' file that
will only grow larger. Also, this `EA DATA. SF' file will be created
on a floppy.
---john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com wrote:
>
>
> Woops! I meant to include this:
>
> My system is NT4 SP3, NTFS file system
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Velman
> jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com
>
>
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> Subject: Re: Permissions?
> Author: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com at mime
> Date: 9/23/98 9:47 AM
>
>
> 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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