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 X-Originating-IP: [203.152.134.5] X-Originating-Email: [vm6580 AT hotmail DOT com] From: "Vikram Mehta" To: Subject: Confusion regarding login / file permissions/ ntea /ntsec Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 12:56:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 May 2003 07:26:21.0570 (UTC) FILETIME=[9BE30620:01C320FC] Hi folks, Help me here.... Let me first give a detailed explanation of the confusion netsec is supposed to work on NTFS ntea is said to work on Windows NT ( assuming on non NTFS) Taking help from CYGWIN user guide , I made the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files they are given below /etc/group:: SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: root:S-1-5-544:0:root None:S-1-5-21-1935655697-1606980848-1957994488-513:513: Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551: Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546: Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547: Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552: Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-VIKRAM\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1 935655697-1606980848-1957994488-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-VIKRAM\Guest,S-1-5-21-1935655697-160698 0848-1957994488-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash root::0:0:S-1-5-21-1935655697-1606980848-1957994488-544:/home/toolchain:/bin /bash shared:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:shared,U-VIKRAM\shared,S-1-5-21-1935655 697-1606980848-1957994488-1000:/home/shared:/bin/bash THE problem is if I login as root and CYGWIN is ntea, i cannot change permissions of file created by root, chmod gives bad file descriptor message If CYGWIN is set to ntsec it works fine Y is it so? Vikram -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/