X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:56:14 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r-- Message-ID: <20110722065614.GX15150@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20110721133148.GL15150@calimero.vinschen.de> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F202EC747E@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F202EC747E@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 21 16:13, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > From: Corinna Vinschen > > On Jul 21 07:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > > FWIW, I'm not running as administrator and I'm running 1.7.9, and I'm > > > seeing the same thing: > > What system? XP, Vista? 7? > > What's the output of `id'? > > $ /usr/lib/csih/winProductName > Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600) > $ id > uid=12779(knellis) gid=10545(knellis) groups=10545(knellis),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users) So you are member of the administrators group. Problem solved. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple