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From:	"Ulrich Voss" <voss AT vocalweb DOT de>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:43:04 +0100
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	permission problem after installation under W2K
Message-ID:	<3CB1C898.676.BC00F8@localhost>

Hi,

I'm a long time Cygwin User and I am very happy with this great 
piece of software. Thanks for your great work!

I am forced to upgrade to W2K. And now the trouble begins ...

Problem: I cannot write to my home dir. Changing files is fine, but I 
cannot create new files.

--------------

admin AT CIABATTA ~
$ cd ~

admin AT CIABATTA ~
$ pwd
/home/admin

admin AT CIABATTA ~
$ ls -la
total 0
drwxrwxrwx    2 admins   Kein            0 Apr  8 15:11 .
drwxrwxrwx    4 admin    Kein            0 Apr  8 15:11 ..

admin AT CIABATTA ~
$ echo "some dumb string" > testfile
bash: testfile: Permission denied

---------------

I downloaded the latest cygwin and installed it. I did a setup for all 
users. I added the CYGWIN environment variable to tty ntsec under 
W2K preferences.

Is this a problem with my /etc/passwd? Here is it:
---
jeder:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
system:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
admins:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
admin::500:544:U-CIABATTA\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1935655697-
920026266-854245398-500:/home/admin:/bin/bash
---

This may look a bit strange for most of you, but this the German 
version of W2K. Perhaps this is the cause for the problem, but I 
doubt it, because I'm surely not the only German user of Cygwin ...

I hope, this isn't a stupid FAQ.

TIA

Ulrich.



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