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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:07:41 -0500
From:	John Fortin <fortinj AT ibm DOT net>
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To:	Sebastien Barre <Sebastien DOT Barre AT utc DOT fr>
CC:	Dennis Newbold <dnewbold AT blackberry DOT ivs DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: ... is not writable by you
References:	<4 DOT 1 DOT 19990225124802 DOT 02724850 AT mail DOT club-internet DOT fr> <4 DOT 1 DOT 19990225182034 DOT 016a2f10 AT mail DOT club-internet DOT fr>

What is you userid though.  If the files were created by you and you are part
of the administrator group, the files are OWNED by the administrator ID.  If
your userid is not the administrator then you only have read/execute rights.

    I ran into this with a very simple makefile about 2 weeks ago.  I wasn't
the administrator, but was part of the administrator group. I could not write
into the directory because the Administrator id owned it.

Hope this helps,
John Fortin
fortinj AT ibm DOT net


Sebastien Barre wrote:

> At 08:51 25/02/99 -0800, Dennis Newbold wrote:
>
> >     Not only do you have to have write access to /usr/local/bin, you
> >also need write access to /usr/local, and quite possibly to /usr as well.
>
> Yes of course, I have these rights :)
>
> administrateur [8] /$ ll
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   7 administ Aucun           0 Feb 16 09:29 usr/
> administrateur [9] /$ cd usr/
> administrateur [11] /usr$ ll
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   8 administ Aucun           0 Feb 16 11:34 local/
> administrateur [14] /usr$ ll local
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   2 administ Aucun           0 Feb 24 01:50 bin/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 administ Aucun           0 Feb 23 09:17 include/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 administ Aucun           0 Feb 23 09:17 info/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 administ Aucun           0 Feb 16 11:34 lib/
> drwxr-xr-x   4 administ Aucun           0 Feb 16 11:34 man/
> drwxr-xr-x   5 administ Aucun           0 Feb 23 09:17 share/
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Sebastien Barre                  http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/
>
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