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: <3A0936A0.8791FC62@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 12:18:56 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-SMP i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: strange permissions: ---------- References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Schaible, Joerg" wrote: > The system home directory is mounted to: > c:\WINNT\Profiles /home system binmode > > This mount synchronizes my %USERPROFILE% and $HOME directories to store my > settings for WinNT and Cygwin. > Somehow the ownership of my home changed from > > drwxrwxrwx 17 544 Administ 20480 Nov 8 08:25 jse > > to > > drwxrwx--- 17 1027 SYSTEM 20480 Nov 8 08:25 jse > > This change results for strange access rights creating new files in my home > directory: > > ---------- 1 544 Administ 180 Nov 8 08:23 makefile > > Does somebody know, why this happens? What represents the user 1027? Is > there any way to revert this, because "chown 544 $HOME" is ignored? I'm quite sure that 1027 is the RID of your own account. Did you create a /etc/passwd file with mkpasswd? Either that is missing or you created the file before creating the user `jse'. You should add an entry for the administrators group (which is what 544 means here) to /etc/passwd as well: myadminsgroup::544:513:U-ntsadminsgroup,S-1-5-32-544::/bin/false Substitute "myadminsgroup" by your favorite name for the admins group and substitute "ntsadminsgroup" by the name of the NT admins group in your locale (eg. "administrators" in the English version, "administratoren" in the German version etc) or go the easy way: ntsadminsgroup::544:513:,S-1-5-32-544::/bin/false When asked what has changed the ownership I would guess on NT itself. The profiles directory is heavily used by NT and it's tools (Explorer, IE, etc). I recall that I had a similar problem more than a year ago. I would never use the NT/W2K proposed directory as my Cygwin home directory. In fact, I change the home directory on my boxes even in the NT/W2K user manager to sth. like D:\home\corinna. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@sources.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen@redhat.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com