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: <000b01c0c7d7$8ae4cb40$c4332041@campbell> From: "Christopher Dale Campbell" To: "Corinna Vinschen" References: <005701c0c731$71e7de80$c4332041 AT campbell> <20010417135556 DOT E12559 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <001901c0c773$0fd99ca0$c4332041 AT campbell> <20010417214024 DOT D15962 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Subject: Re: ntsec environment variable Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 03:16:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm part of the 'Power Users' group, but not the Administrators' (although it's my computer and I have Admin access, this is just my regular user account). After `chown -R dale.None .` and `chmod -R u+rwx .` (executed in ~) my home directory permissions are: [dale:~]$ ls -ln total 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 513 0 Apr 16 00:55 bin/ drwxrwxrwx 3 1000 513 0 Apr 16 00:41 learn_c/ drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 513 0 Apr 17 07:22 src/ drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 513 0 Apr 18 03:02 tmp/ And after `umask 022` a new file has the permissions of: [dale:~/tmp]$ umask 022 [dale:~/tmp]$ touch test.file [dale:~/tmp]$ ls -ln total 0 - -rwxrwxrwx 1 1000 513 0 Apr 18 03:10 test.file* [dale:~/tmp]$ Here's my /etc/passwd (with the passwd field edited): [dale:~]$ cat /etc/passwd Everyone:*:0:0:SNIPPED:: SYSTEM:*:18:18:SNIPPED:: Administrators:*:544:544:SNIPPED:: Administrator::500:513:Christopher Dale Campbell,SNIPPED:/home/Administrator:/bin/sh Brad::1001:513:Brad Campbell,SNIPPED:/home/Brad:/bin/sh Dale::1000:513:Christopher Dale Campbell,SNIPPED:/home/Dale:/bin/sh IUSR_CAMPBELL::1003:513:Internet Guest Account,SNIPPED:/home/IUSR_CAMPBELL:/bin/sh IWAM_CAMPBELL::1004:513:Launch IIS Process Account,SNIPPED:/home/IWAM_CAMPBELL:/bin/sh Supedawg::1002:513:Dad and Kelly,SNIPPED:/home/Supedawg:/bin/sh Note sure if any of this info helps. All of the permissions appear to be the same. Should I execute the chown and chmod commands logged in as Administrator? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" To: "cygwin" Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 3:40 PM Subject: Re: ntsec environment variable > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:17:32PM -0400, Christopher Dale Campbell > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Here's the output for those commands: > > > > [dale:~]$ id > > uid=1000(dale) gid=513(None) groups=513(None) > > > > [dale:~]$ ls -ln > > total 0 > > drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 513 0 Apr 16 00:55 bin/ > > drwxrwxrwx 3 1000 513 0 Apr 16 00:41 learn_c/ > > drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 513 0 Apr 17 07:22 src/ > > drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 513 0 Apr 17 07:37 tmp/ > > > > [dale:~]$ getfacl .vimrc > > # file: .vimrc > > # owner: 1000 > > # group: 513 > > user::--- > > user:500:rwx > > user:1001:--- > > user:1002:--- > > group::rwx > > mask::rwx > > other::rwx > > The ACL is interesting, actually. The user 500 (which is probably > the administrator account) has all permissions on the file while > YOU (user::---) have no explicit permissions set. That could result > in the cp error message as well. > > I can't see the reason from here, of course, but it could be > related to the setting of the parent directories which seem to have > weird > (windows typical) permission settings. You could try the following > in the parent directories: > > chown -R dale.None . > chmod -R u+rwx . > > and set umask to, say, 022 if it's not already set to a reasonable > value. Then try the cp again. If the directory permissions and > umask and /etc/passwd is ok, then creating files should work ok. > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding > Cygwin to Cygwin Developer > mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOt0/L4XnWfGgRqP+EQK5WgCgro9C7Togl7nEfXq+0v1OWWPUfGMAoMjg +cA7QCKbPmVeInqvOPEx51b1 =yVr9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple