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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:37:58 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: chmod/chown + ntsec doesn't work (was OpenSSH and RSA authentication  problems)
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Hi!

Friday, 05 October, 2001 Peter Buckley peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com wrote:

PB> I saw one other post that said that you should 
PB> make sure CYGWIN is set to "ntsec" but that doesn't 
PB> necessarily mean that chmod or chown is going to work. 

PB> I tried your example from a bash shell on my system, 
PB> with CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec. Of course, chmod didn't 
PB> work right. You can see from the following output that 
PB> chmod worked in some cases, and chown definitely 
PB> didn't work. I checked the FAQ, the archives, and the 
PB> documentation, but there seem to only be suggestions 
PB> to "set CYGWIN=ntsec" and "you can't use chmod on 95/98". 

PB> This seems like the root of your SSH problem Dave, I just
PB> wish I knew why chmod didn't work.

chmod shouldn't work as you suppose it have to. try the same commands
on any unix. you'll get the same diagnostics.

PB> /home/pbuckley $ touch example_file
PB> /home/pbuckley $ ls -la example_file
PB> -rw-rw-rw-    1 pbuckley Domain U        0 Oct  5 08:47 example_file
PB> /home/pbuckley $ chown system.system example_file
PB> chown: changing ownership of `example_file': Permission denied

ordinary user can't change object ownership. this is the way the POSIX
works.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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