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 X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZXyKAwRSe0HrxHgXn2crnwiFVceN/pnGOmtGmhfVZVj5Uo/+ToeZCR Message-ID: <3F22B535.2070001@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:07:01 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Njoku CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ftp: can't set gid References: <000001c35317$57fdcd30$0401a8c0@vaio> In-Reply-To: <000001c35317$57fdcd30$0401a8c0@vaio> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit George Njoku wrote: > I did a cat /etc/passwd > And my gid isn't the same as that of Administrator or Administrators > And I do have the same priveledges as admin. > > Ps : I install so that only I can use cygwin. If mean by this that you chose the "Just Me" option in setup.exe, then you won't be able to install and run Cygwin daemons as Window services (i.e. the ftp server). This is a common misunderstanding. If you plan to run Cygwin services (ftpd, sshd, crond, telnetd, etc), please install Cygwin for "All Users". If you've already installed Cygwin, just rerun setup and change "Just Me" to "All Users". You don't have to actually install or reinstall anything in the process. Otherwise, if you're interested in understanding more about what making this change means and how to do it outside setup, see 'man mount' and the '-s' flag. You need '/', '/usr/bin', and '/usr/lib' to be mounted as 'system' for services to work. They'll be mounted as 'user' if you chose "Just Me" in setup.exe. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/