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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 03:43:48 +0100
From: Garry Heaton <garry AT heaton6 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with  'ntsec']
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Can you chmod files from a user account? All I get is 'rwxrwxrwx' for everything. Even when trying to change permissions on files as the owner all I get is 'Permission denied'.

Garry

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 02:05 PM 6/17/2002, Garry Heaton wrote:
> 
>>I've tried all these ntsec/ntea combinations but still have no permissions. Can anyone tell me how to get Cygwin working with standard UNIX file permissions? No-one seems to know how.
> 
> 
> 
> Really?  Who's no one?  Apparently not me.  I just installed Cygwin via 
> setup today on a new machine and had everything going quite well within
> minutes.  Kudos to the setup development team for making it so easy! :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
> 838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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> 
> 



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