Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/04/18/04:48:10
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I added my normal user to the Backup Operators group, then executed
those commands. That appears to have fixed things up. Thanks for
you help.
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From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: ntsec environment variable
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:16:52AM -0400, Christopher Dale Campbell
> wrote:
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> > I'm part of the 'Power Users' group, but not the Administrators'
> > (although it's my computer and I have Admin access, this is just
> > my regular user account). After `chown -R dale.None .` and
> > `chmod -R u+rwx .` (executed in ~) my home directory permissions
> > are:
>
> [SNIP]
> > Note sure if any of this info helps. All of the permissions
> > appear to be the same. Should I execute the chown and chmod
> > commands logged in as Administrator?
>
> That's the point. Users only can use chown if they have the user
> right "Restore files and directories". That right is only given to
> the groups "Administrators" and "Backup Operators" by default.
> That's ...similar... to Unix systems.
>
> And chmod is ok to use for all users as long as they have the
> permission to do so. But my instruction was buggy. Ok, *sic*,
> try that:
>
> chmod 755 .
> chmod -R 755 bin
> find learn_c src -type d | xargs chmod 755
> find learn_c src tmp -type f | xargs chmod 644
>
> Corinna
>
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