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 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:00:57 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ntsec with W2K workgroup Message-ID: <20010420160057.E15499@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3ADC4968.5090502@netscape.net> <20010417163411.G12559@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3AE03A26.4070404@netscape.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE03A26.4070404@netscape.net>; from venkateshbr@netscape.net on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:01:18PM +0530 On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:01:18PM +0530, venkatesh wrote: > Hi > Actually I have used setup.exe to install cygwin. In the /bin directory > all the files don't have any permission bit set when I use ntsec. And > the files have owner/group as administ/None. Without ntsec the files > owner/group are venkates/Power Us. So you have changed your /etc/passwd already. If not, it would have been venkates/None. > Most of the files I could execute in that directory but some > applications such as man complain about troff not found etc. When i > remove ntsec I don't have any problem. Should I set ntsec env variable > before using setup.exe. That doesn't have any effect. setup.exe is not a Cygwin application. > In my /etc/passwd and etc/group entries have > None as group for all users. I tried changing them (like 547)also. That's ok. None is the primary group setting on workstations and servers outside of a domain. It's not changable in NT, except by entering a domain! The well known local groups like `Users' `Power Users', `Administrators' are only usable as suplementary groups. Cygwin manages to use the settings in /etc/passwd as if another group is your primary group when ntsec is on but as soon as you create a file using a non-Cygwin application you will see that it has group `None' again. I suggest reading the ntsec chapter in the online user guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html 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