Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001025220715.00b749a8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:10:42 -0400 To: "Newton Robinson" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: .netrc file In-Reply-To: <011201c03ef0$240d52e0$0100a8c0@newton1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:57 PM 10/25/2000, Newton Robinson wrote: >I have installed cygwin on an NT 4.0 workstation. I created a .netrc file >to contain account information for other UNIX systems I need to transfer >files between. Ftp reports that other users have read access to the file >and will not use the values. I tried chmod 600 with no luck. The file >still has 644 permissions. I used NT to remove everyone from the file. >Still no luck. > >Is it possible to change the permissions of the file? > >Any other ideas? > >Newton Assuming you're using NTFS partitions, set CYGWIN to ntsec. See the mail archives and the user's guide for details (http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com