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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:36:52 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: chmod using NT
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In-Reply-To: <1B7FCD9C07D3D4118FC500508BDF42E8018A273F@emss09m02.ems.lmco.com>; from michael.shoemaker@lmco.com on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:59:27PM -0500

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:59:27PM -0500, Shoemaker, Michael (N-MAXIM Group) wrote:
> I am having troubles getting chmod to work under Windows NT 4.0 Workstation.
> I have read the FAQ and added ntsec to my CYGWIN environment variable, but
> it still doesn't work.  I set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group already.  who
> works just fine so Im pretty sure they are right.  Any ideas?  

chmod doesn't work on FAT file systems except for R/O bit.

Corinna

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