X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <438B850E.5080805@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:30:38 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Debbie Tropiano CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin install changing permissions References: <20051128191539.GA11799@arlut.utexas.edu> <438B656A.5070505@cygwin.com> <20051128222334.GC11950@arlut.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051128222334.GC11950@arlut.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Debbie Tropiano wrote: > Larry - > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:15:38PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >>On 11/28/2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: >> >>>It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and then >>>install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator on many >>>of the critical file folders. We did not receive an uninstall executable >>>to undo the damage, so all we can do is reinstall the OS from scratch and >>>reconfigure all the settings on the PCs." >> >>I think it's fair to say that this problem report lacks enough specificity >>to speculate with much certainty as to why someone would encounter this >>difficulty. ... > > > Thanks. I was afraid of that, but it was all the information that I was > given and then the system was re-installed (without Cygwin). I'll see > if I can figure out more about what happens with the installs when I have > time, but I'm not optimistic about it (I'm a *nix sysadmin and am trying > to understand Windows but don't have much time to spend doing so). Understood. From what you described, there wasn't anything obviously wrong with the install process used. There's a chance that the installation media itself is bad somehow, though I do think it's pretty remote that it would cause the problems reported. In any case, I think you can gather from this that the reported results are not the expected ones from an ordinary Cygwin (off-line) install. If you find it is reproducible somehow, then we're certainly interested in the details. Good luck. :-) -- 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/