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: <3BBDC64A.62A1E696@cportcorp.com> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:40:10 -0400 From: Peter Buckley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: chmod/chown + ntsec doesn't work (was OpenSSH and RSA authentication problems) References: <20011003103653 DOT A8662 AT drew DOT edu> <20011003214843 DOT A9463 AT drew DOT edu> <3BBC9402 DOT 789194A5 AT cportcorp DOT com> <20011004220251 DOT A10846 AT drew DOT edu> <3BBDB0C8 DOT DA04DAC8 AT cportcorp DOT com> <19416088393 DOT 20011005173758 AT logos-m DOT ru> <3BBDC155 DOT E3746B3A AT cportcorp DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay, welcome to the twilight zone. All of a sudden, chmod started working. Now I can't reproduce the problem anymore. I haven't changed anything tricky, like opening additional applications on my machine or anything. But, chown still doesn't work. And we can still say that chmod doesn't work intermittently, although I hope it never stops working again randomly. There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man... -Peter Peter Buckley wrote: > > Ummm.... Egor, what are you talking about? > Have you tried the same commands on "any > flavor of unix"? > > Chmod DOES work as I suppose it to. I tried > the same commands, on SunOs 5.7, and they worked > just fine. No errors, and I got the expected results. > > /home/pbuckley $touch example_file > /home/pbuckley $ls -la example_file > -rw-r--r-- 1 pbuckley ccase 0 Oct 5 09:57 example_file > /home/pbuckley $chmod 777 example_file > /home/pbuckley $ls -la example_file > -rwxrwxrwx 1 pbuckley ccase 0 Oct 5 09:57 example_file > > And about chown- I am an administrator on my NT machine. And > I have changed ownership before, when I was setting > up SSH according to Mike Erdely's instructions. > > It is just now that I am trying this example that chown > doesn't work- and I have done an upgrade (last month?) > to cygwin 1.3.3 *after* I knew chown was working when > I setup SSH and chown-ed files to system.system. > > So my question is still unanswered- why doesn't > chmod/chown + ntsec work anymore? > > TIA, > Peter > > egor duda wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- > Your mouse has moved. > Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. > Reboot now? [OK] > > -- > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [OK] -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/