X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:26:34 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod permission denied on windows 2008 Message-ID: <20080704082634.GG10582@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20080703125758.GC10582@calimero.vinschen.de> <47B4D5F8CD5D4946ACA235F131B6674F@multiplay.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B4D5F8CD5D4946ACA235F131B6674F@multiplay.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jul 3 23:19, Steven Hartland wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" > >> Works fine for me on 2008 so I assume some local setting which >> disallows this. Did you remove the "Back up privileg and directories" >> privilege from the admin's account, by any chance? > > The info from "whoami /all" indicates that you are correct but this > is appears to be the default as I'm not aware of any changes I've > made in this area >[...] > SeBackupPrivilege Back up files and directories > Disabled That doesn't mean what you think it means. The user token *has* the backup privilege, it's just disabled. That's actually the default for this privilege, it must be enabled explicitely in a process before the process can make use of this privilege. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/