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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:48:19 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with 'ntsec']
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:51:51PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:26:07PM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
>> I've tried it both ways. The result is the same. All permissions set to 
>> 'rwxrwxrwx' and no 'chmod' or 'chown' working. Here's the original 
>> '/etc/passwd' file:
>
>Is the result actually the same?  Including the access violation?
>Could you please send another strace with the below /etc/passwd
>file?  And please send the following additional information:
>
>- The name and path of the file you're trying to chmod.
>- ls -l <that_file>
>- ls -ld <parent_dir_of_that_file>
>- getfacl <that_file>
>- getfacl <parent_dir_of_that_file>
>
>Perhaps that helps.  It's pretty unclear why it results in an
>access violation.  I've never seen that on my system.

The access violation appears to occur when the process is attempting
to print a debugging message via strace.  I don't think you'd see
it otherwise.

cgf

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