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From: "Gene C. Ruzicka" <gcruzicka AT earthlink DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: /u/home permissions for new users' directories
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:57:26 -0700
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i have cygwin installed on a w2k machine in the administrator account. to
give power users access cygwin. i've used the "mkpasswd -l > passwd"
command as explained in the user's guide.  but when the power users try
to log in, they're told that they have no permission to create a home directory
in /u/home . btw, i've assigned the power users to group 547 by modifying
the passwd file, as per corinna's suggestion in the user's guide. note that this
problem doesn't occur when giving cygwin access to an administrator
user.

i seem to be able to get around this problem by having an administrator 
create the power user home directory in /u/home, and then giving full ownership
of the directory to the power user using the w2k permissions utilities. but 
this seems like an involved procedure--i find the w2k permissions utilities
painful to use. am i doing this correctly, and/or is
there a simpler way to give the power user (or any other user) 
the required access to the administrator /u/home directory?
i couldn't find anything about this issue in the user's guide or in the 
mailing list archives.

gene


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