From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re[2]: Permissions? 24 Sep 1998 11:53:07 -0700 Message-ID: <19980923184138.23621.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send104.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com Add `ntea' to the list of values for the CYGWIN32 environment variable. `ntea' is for NT Extended Attributes. CAUTION: If you have this set for a FAT on NT then you will get an `EA DATA. SF' file that will only grow larger. Also, this `EA DATA. SF' file will be created on a floppy. ---john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > 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 > == - \\||// -----------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".