Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/12/16:27:42
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 10:20 AM 7/12/2005, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote:
> >
> >> > So, except for the pdksh postinstall (which is a genuine bug),
> >> > everything else seems to be related to the weird permissions on your
> >> > machine.
> >>
> >> Could it be related to the strange fact that my numeric user id
> >> suddenly has changed from 400 to 121833?
> >
> >I'm not sure.
>
>
> Well, this simple fact would not change file permissions from something
> to 000. However, if you're permissions previously were not POSIX but
> only ACLs and those ACLs didn't include your domain user, then you may
> have somehow been able to create files with POSIX permissions 000 and
> still been able to access them mostly before your "new" UID appeared.
> That's a pretty far-fetched conjecture on my part so I wouldn't give it
> too much credence. But, the point I want to make is that running
> mkpasswd/mkgroup isn't going to change file permissions.
Larry, I suspect "ls -l" showed files with permissions ----------+, which
Ron interpreted as 000 without noticing the ACL flag.
Igor
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