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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A683B3E.3638637E@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:03:58 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Shields, Daniel [EQTY]" CC: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Permissions of files on a remote server References: <414A46142DECD211A749002048403D260551D7D6@exchuk07.eu.ssmb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Shields, Daniel [EQTY]" wrote: > > The partition is mounted from another NT box. What we found is that by > adding the group 'Everyone' to the read and execute permission on the remote > server the files now appear r-xr-xr-x. > > eg: > -r-xr-xr-x 1 ds83392 Domain U 5 Jan 19 10:28 hat3 > > Now when I 'touch' a new file it get r-xr-xr-x permission. However, I can > neither change the permission or delete it! I can edit it in vim and use w! > modify its contents. > > The directory in which I'm creating these files looks like: > > drwxrwxrwt 1 administ Domain U 16384 Jan 19 10:28 . > > so I'm thinking that there is some flaw in the way we've set up the > groups...? > Does your local workstation contain a local user account of the same user id as the domain name you log in with? What is the value of your CYGWIN variable? Cheers, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple