From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Permissions? 24 Sep 1998 03:58:18 -0700 Message-ID: <19980923164702.15339.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1e.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com What's your system?! WinNT 3.51, 4 or 5, Win95 or Win98? ---john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com wrote: > > > Can someone point me to an explanation of how Cygwin handles > permissions, and -- specifically -- how I can get root permission? > > I just ran a-foul of trying to configure a package where configure > tests to see if it can find the sources by testing for a certain file > to be readable. It turned out that this particluar package had a lot > of permissions set to -rw-r-----. Probably this is the case in a > number of directories as well as a lot of files in this directory. > > I could try changing all permissions in all directories with find, but > it would be a lot cleaner to be able to do an su like I do on my Linux > box. > > And by the way, how does Cygwin know what the permisions are, anyhow? > It appears that this has little if anything I can find in explorer > file properties. > > Thanks, > > John Velman > jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > == - \\||// -----------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------ -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://freeyellow.com/members5/gw32 -- --------------ooo0O--O0ooo--------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".