Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D7B8E71.4060807@scytek.de> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 19:52:49 +0200 From: Volker Quetschke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod problem References: <3D7B7400.9070702@scytek.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig03261914D8E0825FAD837146" --------------enig03261914D8E0825FAD837146 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! > -> Err, in which FAQ is this written? Just try chmod, it works! >>From the FAQ: > > Why doesn't chmod work? > `ntsec' will allow UNIX permissions in Windows NT on NTFS file systems. Yes, you have to have ntsec or ntea set in your CYGWIN environement variable to be able to use chmod. > -> As I said, use chmod. I am using gnupg on a win2k system. > > I tried using chmod. Although I get no errors and in verbose mode it says > the permissions are changed, a "ls -al" shows: > > $ chmod 600 * > > perry@ELVIS ~/.gnupg > $ ls -la > total 235 > drwxr-xr-x 2 perry None 4096 Sep 8 09:46 . > drwxr-xr-x 7 perry None 8192 Sep 8 11:58 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 perry None 7793 Sep 8 09:41 options It seems you don't have ntsec or ntea set in your CYGWIN variable. As a workaround you can always use the keyword no-permission-warning in your gnupg options file, but I think the proper way is to use CYGWIN=ntsec (plus your other options). Bye Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D --------------enig03261914D8E0825FAD837146 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9e45zPTXJup+KeF0RAlksAKCd6S3qt2mXQuoO9iKCXsG+T/W2LwCfZlhC 1g14jcUlVPKTyxMBwQws0zk= =yKZk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig03261914D8E0825FAD837146--