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 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:27:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: FischRon.external@infineon.com Subject: RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050712153055.03bef6e8@pop.prospeed.net> Message-ID: References: <25F7D2213F14794A8767B88203EA2BC9240CB9@mucse201.eu.infineon.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20050712153055.03bef6e8@pop.prospeed.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > At 10:20 AM 7/12/2005, you wrote: > >On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote: > > > >> > So, except for the pdksh postinstall (which is a genuine bug), > >> > everything else seems to be related to the weird permissions on your > >> > machine. > >> > >> Could it be related to the strange fact that my numeric user id > >> suddenly has changed from 400 to 121833? > > > >I'm not sure. > > > Well, this simple fact would not change file permissions from something > to 000. However, if you're permissions previously were not POSIX but > only ACLs and those ACLs didn't include your domain user, then you may > have somehow been able to create files with POSIX permissions 000 and > still been able to access them mostly before your "new" UID appeared. > That's a pretty far-fetched conjecture on my part so I wouldn't give it > too much credence. But, the point I want to make is that running > mkpasswd/mkgroup isn't going to change file permissions. Larry, I suspect "ls -l" showed files with permissions ----------+, which Ron interpreted as 000 without noticing the ACL flag. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/