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From: "Sommer, Thorsten" <Thorsten DOT Sommer AT volkswagen DOT de>
To: "'Facey Brian'" <facey_brian AT bah DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: chmod
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:54:35 +0100
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Hi, Brian ...

> I am using cygwin 1.3.6-6 on Windows NT 4 Server SP 6 and cannot do a
> chmod on a file.  The permissions just remain the same.  I even did a
> chmod -v 600 on a file.  The output showed that the permissions had
> changed.  However, when I did an ls -la, the permissions remained the
> same.

I think you should investigate the CYGWIN environment variable
and its value "ntsec" ;-)

Greetings from Germany,
Th.


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