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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:53:48 -0400
To: Kevin Woolie <kwoolie AT techlinkentertainment DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "William A. Hoffman" <billlist AT nycap DOT rr DOT com>
Subject: Re: chmod consistently reports invalid arguments
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Try this:

1. manually modify the /etc/passwd file 
mkpasswd -du mywindowslogin >> /etc/passwd 
Where mywindowslogin is the name of the account that you log into windows with.


2. set CYGWIN=nontsec



At 11:49 AM 10/24/2002 -0300, Kevin Woolie wrote:
>I have a full install (done via the setup installer) of cygwin, done
>yesterday (October 24, 2002), on my Win2k machine at work.  I have
>installed, additionally, the KDE 2 and Windowmaker packages.
>
>Whenever I, or any program/script for that matter, try executing a chmod
>command (chown I believe as well), it complains about invalid arguments -
>programs are dying trying to make various ~/.* directories and files because
>of this, as well as /tmp/* that the program expects to be able to make as a
>given UID.
>
>All my drives are mounted in binmode.
>
>How do I correct this?
>
>dcopserver fails it's self test too, but that's another list...
>
>I am working with NTFS partitions - cygwin lives on my f: drive.
>Additionally, I've got administrator access to my box.
>
>Kevin Woolie
>Programmer
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