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Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn AT mcb-home DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
To: <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Got a permissions problem
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 21:43:01 +0100
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Hi,

Im running a windows 2000 server with the cygwin layer installed =
(1.3.10) and i am having some difficulty with permissions. I remotely =
administer my server via ssh so i generally cannot make changes to the =
windows 2000 permissions so i use the ch* calls to change permissions. =
In one perticular instance im trying to change the owner of some files =
in my home directory /root. Heres what happens when i 'chown admin =
file.txt'

file.txt: Permission Denied

Also i would like to get cron running but i am unable to because of a =
seteuid error 'seteuid: Not Owner' when starting cron. I have followed =
some instructions from the cygwin ml including removing the /var/cron =
tree and re-installing from /etc/postinstall/cron.sh.done several times =
but i always get the same error.

So can i become the system account to stop these annoying errors =
cropping up?

Heres the contents of my passwd/group (/etc) files:

passwd:
everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::/bin/false
system::18:18:,S-1-5-18::/bin/bash
admins:*:544:544:Administrators,U-EXPO-LOCAL-NET/Administrators,S-1-5-32-=
544:/root:/bin/false
users:*:545:545:,S-1-5-32-545::
admin::500:544:U-EXPO-LOCAL-NET\Administrator,S-1-5-18-21-725345543-50792=
1405-1957994488-500:/root:/bin/bash

group:
everyone:S-1-1-0:0:
system:S-1-5-18:18:
admins:S-1-5-32-544:544:
users:S-1-5-32-545:545:

Cheers,

Elfyn


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