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: <3A3C7677.29906E35@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 03:16:55 -0500 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: CVS permissions problem with network drive References: <00121412122502.24469@cygbert> <3A38F606.B3458493@ece.gatech.edu> <00121617032806.00473@cygbert> <3A3C668F.E6885AC8@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Charles S. Wilson" wrote: > > The necessary right appears to be "Restore Files and Directories" > (SeRestorePrivilege). At least the following did not work: > > host user cwilson: member of 'Power Users', no additional rights > but this DID work: > host user cwilson: membero of 'Power Users' + SeRestorePrivilege. > > (It's possible the necessary rights are SeRestorePrivilege + the rights > granted by Power User status, as opposed to normal User). > Dadgummit. Looks like I spoke too soon. It is true that the preceeding combination of rights will allow 'touch foo' to create a file with the desired permissions (umask = 002 ---> -rw-rw-r-- foo) but I'm still prevented from THEN doing a 'chmod 777 foo'. > So: In order to access a CVS repository on an SMB share exported by an > NT host, the user's account on the host must have the SeRestorePrivilege > right. However, this is dangerous: This is bull. Ignore. --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com