X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <442428E8.9040703@byu.net> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:14:16 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, metaperl.cygwin@gmail.com Subject: Re: chmod not working after setting ntsec in CYGWIN environment variable References: <82a397f60603240905t5eb6a726o83da83b60200907e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <82a397f60603240905t5eb6a726o83da83b60200907e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Terrence Brannon on 3/24/2006 10:05 AM: > Why won't chmod work even after setting CYGWIN properly? > > terrence@perl2 ~/.ssh > $ ls -l > total 9 > -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 1675 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa > -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 396 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa.pub > -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 733 Mar 13 12:29 known_hosts ^^^^^^^^^^^ Here's the reason - you don't have a valid /etc/passwd and /etc/group file installed yet, so cygwin does not know what Windows ACL to create. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup for details. > $ chmod -v 600 id_rsa > mode of `id_rsa' changed to 0600 (rw-------) > > terrence@perl2 ~/.ssh > $ ls -l id_rsa > -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 1675 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa Also, you might be using a different filesystem than NTFS, although following these directions, and attaching 'cygcheck -svr' output as a text attachment, would have let us know for sure: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html In which case, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEJCjn84KuGfSFAYARAuRYAJ9tlyiYuk+z4Eyh+7gUCpMNUuD27wCgrLnd 10x9dEfULqkIa2T7NtvaRW8= =nWYk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/