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Hi! Friday, 05 October, 2001 Peter Buckley peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com wrote: PB> I saw one other post that said that you should PB> make sure CYGWIN is set to "ntsec" but that doesn't PB> necessarily mean that chmod or chown is going to work. PB> I tried your example from a bash shell on my system, PB> with CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec. Of course, chmod didn't PB> work right. You can see from the following output that PB> chmod worked in some cases, and chown definitely PB> didn't work. I checked the FAQ, the archives, and the PB> documentation, but there seem to only be suggestions PB> to "set CYGWIN=ntsec" and "you can't use chmod on 95/98". PB> This seems like the root of your SSH problem Dave, I just PB> wish I knew why chmod didn't work. chmod shouldn't work as you suppose it have to. try the same commands on any unix. you'll get the same diagnostics. PB> /home/pbuckley $ touch example_file PB> /home/pbuckley $ ls -la example_file PB> -rw-rw-rw- 1 pbuckley Domain U 0 Oct 5 08:47 example_file PB> /home/pbuckley $ chown system.system example_file PB> chown: changing ownership of `example_file': Permission denied ordinary user can't change object ownership. this is the way the POSIX works. Egor. mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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