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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:08:38 -0500
From: Jonathan <cygwin.com@kinobe.com>
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Subject: 1.5.19: Solution: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission  denied
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Hi all,

I recently set up cygwin on a Windows 2003 box with NTFS file permissions. I 
encountered the same problem as mentioned in this thread:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00732.html

To sum up the issue: Upon ssh login I received the following error message:

-bash: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied

One thing I noticed was that looking at the permissions for the tmp folder under 
the cygwin directory, the permissions for [SERVER]\Users were marked as "Special 
Permissions" rather than the usual set of permissions (e.g., Full Control, 
Modify, etc.). Even though the user seemed to have all of the necessary 
permissions when clicking the Advanced button, I chose to override these 
permission by clicking the  "Modify" checkbox (and additionally all of the 
permissions that get auto-selected when you choose "Modify") and the error 
message went away.

One particular detail about our installation that might be involved in this 
problem: The original installer of cygwin on this particular machine did not 
give [SERVER]\Users "Modify" permission on the cygwin directory. We only added 
them after the install. It's possible that adding these permission to the cygwin 
directory after the install doesn't cascade them in the same way as having them 
there before install does.

I hope this helps,

Jonathan Gordon.
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