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Subject:	cygwin file permissions change after installation
Date:	Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:56:44 -0500
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Hi,

Am I supposed to make any changes to certain files's permissions after 
installing Cygwin? I installed Cygwin (ver 1.5.18-1) and noticed that 
many websites suggesting changing certain files' permissions to 
system:system. This installation was on Windows XP computer.

I ask because I noticed that sshd.log file is still empty (0 bytes). Is 
this normal?
$ ls -al /var/log/*
-rw-r--r--  1 root None  277380 Dec  1 16:23 /var/log/lastlog
-rw-r--r--  1 root None 1141262 Dec  1 00:30 /var/log/setup.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root None     331 Dec  1 00:30 /var/log/setup.log.full
-rw-r--r--  1 root None       0 Dec  1 01:37 /var/log/sshd.log
$ ls -anl /var/log/*
-rw-r--r--  1 1004 513  277380 Dec  1 16:23 /var/log/lastlog
-rw-r--r--  1 1004 513 1141262 Dec  1 00:30 /var/log/setup.log
-rw-r--r--  1 1004 513     331 Dec  1 00:30 /var/log/setup.log.full
-rw-r--r--  1 1004 513       0 Dec  1 01:37 /var/log/sshd.log
$ uname
CYGWIN_NT-5.1

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 red 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02 20:30 i686 unknown 
unknown Cygwin


thanks,
->HS


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