Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Odd permissions problem Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:20:57 -0700 Lines: 82 Message-ID: <3D627A79.4000101@Salira.com> References: <3D613A17 DOT 30401 AT Salira DOT com> <20020820103858 DOT M26346 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029863984 5847 206.184.204.2 (20 Aug 2002 17:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:19:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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 /// 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? Yes: $ rsh $(hostname) ls -l total 19341 drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Aug 15 07:52 Backup drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 28672 Jul 2 08:33 Bin drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Jan 30 2002 Clearquest drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Mar 5 09:01 Configuration dr-xr-xr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 12288 Aug 19 16:45 Documents -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1185 Jun 20 16:51 Files4bug.pm -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1249 May 23 16:29 Filter.pm drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Oct 11 2001 Folder Settings drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 May 8 09:37 GNUstep drwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain A 0 Jul 24 17:14 RESTORED -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain A 19640124 Jul 25 13:06 Spiderman (WTC trailer).mpg -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1217 Aug 2 11:51 ViewTimings.txt -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 5494 Mar 8 15:06 _viminfo -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 703 Jun 17 14:55 bugline.cgi drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Dec 28 2001 build_test -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1388 May 29 14:55 checkcq -rwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 2420 May 15 17:30 cmplab.pl -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 2757 Jun 21 09:34 cqc -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 8484 Jun 25 15:29 cqd -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 861 Jul 11 13:33 cqds.c -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 852 Jul 5 17:42 cqds.c~ -rwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 28908 Jul 11 13:33 cqds.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1842 Jul 5 15:54 daemonize2.c -rwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 303 Oct 11 2001 desktop.ini -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1629 May 23 16:52 filterObj.pl -rw-rw-r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 180 Aug 19 08:44 foo.c -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 7429 Apr 2 15:41 gdbtk.ini -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 3080 Jun 25 15:43 getbug -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1543 Jun 14 13:34 hellod.pl -rw-rw-r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 22050 Aug 15 13:20 sf -rwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 2916 Jun 17 10:05 sigs.pl -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1537 Jun 11 11:29 sockclnt.pl -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1646 Jun 11 11:29 socksrv.pl drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Dec 28 2001 stress_build drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Aug 9 15:43 test -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 820 Jun 26 14:50 test.pl -rw-rw-r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 280 May 16 16:37 test.sh -rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 266 Jun 17 14:06 test2.pl drwxrwxrwx 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Aug 19 10:47 tmp dr-xr-xr-x 1 Administ Domain A 8192 Jul 24 14:13 www -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/