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Subject:	Re: chmod permission denied on windows 2008
Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:40:56 +0100
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> After further looking into this issue I fear I can't do anything against
> that in Cygwin 1.5.25 anymore.  There is a strange privilege issue when
> using impersonation tokens starting with Windows Vista.  The root of the
> problem seems to be UAC.  Cygwin 1.5.25 is using impersonation tokens
> quite heavily.  Due to this problem I dropped all the forced
> impersonation token usage from 1.7, so the issue will be fixed in Cygwin
> 1.7 as far as I can see from my tests.
> 
> The only thing you might try is to switch off UAC entirely on that
> system and try again.  I'm not sure if that helps since I can't test
> this right now.  If you could try and report back?

Tested this and there's no change, still get permission denied from
chown via ssh.

> Other than that, maybe using the (not yet production) Cygwin 1.7 is
> an option for you.  You can install a 1.7-based distro over your 1.5
> distro using another setup.exe: http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe

I'll give this a shot in a bit and let you know.

    Regards
    Steve


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