Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/11/08/06:52:51
Hi!
Please don´t send me such e-mails!
Jürgen Fries, BDV GmbH
----- Original Message -----
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: strange permissions: ----------
> "Schaible, Joerg" wrote:
> > The system home directory is mounted to:
> > c:\WINNT\Profiles /home system binmode
> >
> > This mount synchronizes my %USERPROFILE% and $HOME directories to store
my
> > settings for WinNT and Cygwin.
> > Somehow the ownership of my home changed from
> >
> > drwxrwxrwx 17 544 Administ 20480 Nov 8 08:25 jse
> >
> > to
> >
> > drwxrwx--- 17 1027 SYSTEM 20480 Nov 8 08:25 jse
> >
> > This change results for strange access rights creating new files in my
home
> > directory:
> >
> > ---------- 1 544 Administ 180 Nov 8 08:23 makefile
> >
> > Does somebody know, why this happens? What represents the user 1027? Is
> > there any way to revert this, because "chown 544 $HOME" is ignored?
>
> I'm quite sure that 1027 is the RID of your own account. Did you
> create a /etc/passwd file with mkpasswd? Either that is missing
> or you created the file before creating the user `jse'.
>
> You should add an entry for the administrators group (which is
> what 544 means here) to /etc/passwd as well:
>
> myadminsgroup::544:513:U-ntsadminsgroup,S-1-5-32-544::/bin/false
>
> Substitute "myadminsgroup" by your favorite name for the admins
> group and substitute "ntsadminsgroup" by the name of the NT admins
> group in your locale (eg. "administrators" in the English version,
> "administratoren" in the German version etc) or go the easy way:
>
> ntsadminsgroup::544:513:,S-1-5-32-544::/bin/false
>
> When asked what has changed the ownership I would guess on NT itself.
> The profiles directory is heavily used by NT and it's tools (Explorer,
> IE, etc). I recall that I had a similar problem more than a year ago.
> I would never use the NT/W2K proposed directory as my Cygwin home
> directory. In fact, I change the home directory on my boxes even in the
> NT/W2K user manager to sth. like D:\home\corinna.
>
> Corinna
>
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