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: <002601c0c7e4$6ec94910$c4332041@campbell> From: "Christopher Dale Campbell" To: "Corinna Vinschen" References: <005701c0c731$71e7de80$c4332041@campbell> <20010417135556.E12559@cygbert.vinschen.de> <001901c0c773$0fd99ca0$c4332041@campbell> <20010417214024.D15962@cygbert.vinschen.de> <000b01c0c7d7$8ae4cb40$c4332041@campbell> <20010418100247.K15962@cygbert.vinschen.de> Subject: Re: ntsec environment variable Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:49:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I added my normal user to the Backup Operators group, then executed those commands. That appears to have fixed things up. Thanks for you help. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" To: "cygwin" Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:02 AM Subject: Re: ntsec environment variable > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:16:52AM -0400, Christopher Dale Campbell > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm part of the 'Power Users' group, but not the Administrators' > > (although it's my computer and I have Admin access, this is just > > my regular user account). After `chown -R dale.None .` and > > `chmod -R u+rwx .` (executed in ~) my home directory permissions > > are: > > [SNIP] > > Note sure if any of this info helps. All of the permissions > > appear to be the same. Should I execute the chown and chmod > > commands logged in as Administrator? > > That's the point. Users only can use chown if they have the user > right "Restore files and directories". That right is only given to > the groups "Administrators" and "Backup Operators" by default. > That's ...similar... to Unix systems. > > And chmod is ok to use for all users as long as they have the > permission to do so. But my instruction was buggy. Ok, *sic*, > try that: > > chmod 755 . > chmod -R 755 bin > find learn_c src -type d | xargs chmod 755 > find learn_c src tmp -type f | xargs chmod 644 > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding > Cygwin to Cygwin Developer > mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOt1VAIXnWfGgRqP+EQIgoQCgxMAWGiOESbM/xT+rbBvDH4lNp9YAn0tB 04LLdKsFnNwcMWTpf6VkyxMA =AGOs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple