Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <414A46142DECD211A749002048403D260551D7D8@exchuk07.eu.ssmb.com> From: "Shields, Daniel [EQTY]" To: "'Earnie Boyd'" Subject: RE: Permissions of files on a remote server Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:19:28 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) I'm not sure that I understand your question... what is the userId of the domain? The users and groups were as extracted with mkpasswd -d mkgroup -d CYGWIN is "ntsec tty" Dan. <> -----Original Message----- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com] Sent: 19 January 2001 13:04 To: Shields, Daniel [EQTY] Cc: 'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'; 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com' Subject: Re: Permissions of files on a remote server "Shields, Daniel [EQTY]" wrote: > > The partition is mounted from another NT box. What we found is that by > adding the group 'Everyone' to the read and execute permission on the remote > server the files now appear r-xr-xr-x. > > eg: > -r-xr-xr-x 1 ds83392 Domain U 5 Jan 19 10:28 hat3 > > Now when I 'touch' a new file it get r-xr-xr-x permission. However, I can > neither change the permission or delete it! I can edit it in vim and use w! > modify its contents. > > The directory in which I'm creating these files looks like: > > drwxrwxrwt 1 administ Domain U 16384 Jan 19 10:28 . > > so I'm thinking that there is some flaw in the way we've set up the > groups...? > Does your local workstation contain a local user account of the same user id as the domain name you log in with? What is the value of your CYGWIN variable? Cheers, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple