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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:38:58 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Odd permissions problem
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:33:59AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> This one has me stumped. Occasionally I get "permission denied" type 
> problems when rsh'ing to a machine and creating or updating a file I 
> would think I should be able to create or update. I don't understand why 
> this happens. So I was playing around trying to categorize it:
> 
> $ pwd
> /home/adefaria
> $ touch foo
> $ ls -l foo
> -rw-rw-r--    1 adefaria Domain U        0 Aug 19 10:47 foo
> $ rm foo
> 
> OK, I can touch and create files. Note /home/defaria is actually on a 
> server (i.e. I've mounted //<server>/<share> to /home). However if I try 
> to do this through rsh
> 
> $ rsh $(hostname) touch foo
> touch: creating `foo': Permission denied
> 
> it fails. Now I am myself:
> 
> $ rsh $(hostname) "id && touch file"
> uid=1370(adefaria) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),512(Domain 
> Admins),513(Domain 
> Users),1170(Everybody),1382(ITSupport),1354(Operations),1331(Software)
> touch: creating `foo': Permission denied
> 
> Why is this?

Does `rsh hostname ls' actually list the files in your home dir?

Corinna

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