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Date:	Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:03:33 -0400
To:	"Ulrich Voss" <voss AT vocalweb DOT de>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: permission problem after installation under W2K
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At 12:44 PM 4/8/2002, Ulrich Voss wrote:

>Thanks Larry,
>
>I'm not sure, if I got the message ... I think, that you think ;-) that 
>the problem is, that my home dir belongs to admins (which was 
>administrators or Administratoren before) instead of admin.
>
>When I chown my home dir to admin, ls looks better, but it doesn't 
>change anything.
>
>That's what I did:
>
>---
>$ chown admin .
>
>admin AT CIABATTA ~
>$ pwd
>/home/admin
>
>
>admin AT CIABATTA ~
>$ echo "some dumb string" > testfile
>bash: testfile: Permission denied
>
>admin AT CIABATTA ~
>$ ls -la
>total 0
>drwxrwxrwx    2 admin    Kein            0 Apr  8 15:11 .
>drwxrwxrwx    4 admin    Kein            0 Apr  8 15:11 ..
>
>---
>
>Hmmm?



OK.  Better go to strace and cygcheck -s -r -v output.  Perhaps it's just
a missing 'ntsec' setting in your CYGWIN environment variable?  A review 
of pertinent areas of the User's Guide might prove helpful.



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RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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