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 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:05:24 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin and ntsec Message-ID: <20030314220524.GA68647@Worldnet> References: <20030314214115 DOT 75837 DOT qmail AT web14207 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030314214115.75837.qmail@web14207.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:41:15PM -0800, Ling F. Zhang wrote: > right after installation of cygwin, the cygwin > filesystem is mostly under user Administrators (the > user I use is Admin, which is just renaming the > default Administrator of Win2k) and group None... This is not supposed to happen with the current (few days old) setup. Did you use the current version or an old one? > While I am not sure if None is a group, I am pretty > damn sure that Administrators is a group in my win2k > machine and not a user....what's up with that??? If you are in the Administrators group, then Windows (but not Cygwin) gives ownership to that group... Thus Administrators is placed in both passwd and group. > I checked /etc/passwd and found that "Administrators" > and "Admin" are both well-defined user and am > wondering how come cygwin uses Administrators (again, > a group in win2k) by default? setup is not a Cygwin program, so you will to ask MS. > would > "find / -user Administrators -group none -exec chown > Admin:PowerUser {} \;" > do any harm? (because I did it....) That should be fine. If your machine has users that are not in PowerUser, make sure "other" has rw access. Pierre -- 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/