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From: "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
To: "'Cygwin-List'" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: FAQ or bash bug with ntsec? (WAS: Help request: bash with PATH problems)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:50:13 +0100
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*Many* thanks for solving this.  I run 3 copies of cygwin; desktop
at home, laptop and desktop at work.  The desktop at home showed
this issue and I was unable to figure out why.

Could this be put in a FAQ somewhere please?

J.

> From: Schaible, Jörg
>
> Hello all,
>
> lately I found the reason for this odd behaviour that my path is
> ignored in
> bash. The main reason causing it was the activation of ntsec in my new
> profile. After activation /bin/find.exe has follwing settings:
>
> $ ls -l /bin/find.exe
> -rwx------    1 admins   nobody      78848 20. May 05:39 /bin/find.exe
>
> while the other find has:
>
> $ ls -l /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/find.exe
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 admins   system      10000  4. May 2001
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/find.exe
>
> bash will find and execute with ntsec always
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/find.exe independently where the path for
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32 is in the PATH! Applications
> applications in /bin
> will be found and executed if there is no other executable with same name
> (behaviour does not apply to more.exe/more.com) with a "better" ACL.
>
> After changing owner and group of the files and a restart of the shell,
> /bin/find.exe is found first and the system behaves as expected! Note: The
> behaviour could only be observed for bash, any other shell on my system
> (ash, tcsh, zsh, cygtclsh80) did not have this problem.
>
> Regards,
> Jörg


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