From: john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com Subject: Re[2]: Permissions? 24 Sep 1998 09:43:21 -0700 Message-ID: <0EZQ00905ZDTH0.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.hac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary_(ID_k3Nv41r8lpv6qCNkzgYKdw)" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com --Boundary_(ID_k3Nv41r8lpv6qCNkzgYKdw) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Woops! I meant to include this: My system is NT4 SP3, NTFS file system Thanks, John Velman jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Permissions? Author: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com at mime Date: 9/23/98 9:47 AM 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 --Boundary_(ID_k3Nv41r8lpv6qCNkzgYKdw) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT RFC-822-headers: Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-12 #26580) id <0EZQ00B01XDM9O AT mail DOT hac DOT com> for "john r velman"@mime.mail.hac.com; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PROCESS-DAEMON by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-12 #26580) id <0EZQ00B01XDJ95 AT mail DOT hac DOT com> for "john r velman"@mime.mail.hac.com; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fw-es05.hac.com by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-12 #26580) with ESMTP id <0EZQ005FHXDKTC AT mail DOT hac DOT com> for "john r velman"@mime.mail.hac.com; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from send1e.yahoomail.com ([205.180.60.64]) by fw-es05.hac.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA06299 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [199.186.21.253] by send1e; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:47:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: Permissions? Reply-to: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Message-id: <19980923164702 DOT 15339 DOT rocketmail AT send1e DOT yahoomail DOT com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT --Boundary_(ID_k3Nv41r8lpv6qCNkzgYKdw)-- - 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".