Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID:	<000a01c1aa9c$d6c158a0$0700a8c0@vergenet.com>
From:	"Arek" <james AT verge-rpg DOT com>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References:	<000d01c1aa86$e1513620$e2824f86 AT slac DOT stanford DOT edu> <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20020131154250 DOT 020d24d0 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Can't create new file/directory
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:18:32 -0600
MIME-Version:	1.0
X-Priority:	3
X-MSMail-Priority:	Normal
X-Mailer:	Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700
X-MimeOLE:	Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700

> At 03:30 PM 1/31/2002, Arek wrote:
> >AFAIK, Cygwin doesn't use NT user permissions.
>
> Exactly what is the basis for this statement?  Have you read the user's
> guide?  The 'ntsec' option of the CYGWIN environment variable does a
> real nice job of maintaining user permissions in a POSIX way when used
> as directed.
>
Hrm...I hadn't looked into that much.

Perhaps,  then, this is related to how cygwin is reading the permissions.
It sees that this directory belongs to the user 'Everyone' (not everybody as
I said earlier...), and that that user (and only that user) has full
permissions on that directory.  In any case, the most likely solution is the
same:  Delete the directory using windows explorer and recreate it from
within cygwin.

James Potts
(james AT verge-rpg DOT com)



--
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/

- Raw text -