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Subject:	RE: File permission problems with new cygwin dll
Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:23:25 -0400
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From:	"Rolf Campbell" <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
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That fixed all of my problems!  "mkpasswd -du mywindowslogin >
/etc/passwd", and then gcc started producing programs that were
executable again.

-Rolf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:05 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: File permission problems with new cygwin dll
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:09:31AM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
> >I just upgraded to the new cygwin dll and gcc, and I seem to 
> be running 
> >into some of the same problems reported by others. (Yes, I 
> know ntsec 
> >is now enabled by default.)
> >
> >First problem: chmod doesn't work. Whenever I try to use it, 
> I just get
> >"chmod: changing permissions of `foo': Invalid argument".
> 
> As a guess, that would probably be an indication that your 
> /etc/passwd is out of sync with your Windows account.  
> Rerunning mkpasswd may help.
> 
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