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From: "Mark Priest" <mpriest AT erols DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <005501c341aa$1d82e830$6902a8c0 AT markonius> <3F04A09D DOT 10200 AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: new Info on File Permission Problems on Windows XP, cygwin 1.3.22
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:28:56 -0400
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Larry,

I am referring to the ntsec setting for the CYGWIN environment variable.  It
is described as the ntsec patch in the user document so I thought that was
the name people were familiar with.

Thanks,
Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "Mark Priest" <mpriest AT erols DOT com>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: new Info on File Permission Problems on Windows XP, cygwin
1.3.22


> Just curious.  What "ntsec patch" are you referring to?
>
> Larry
>
> Mark Priest wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was able to fix the problem with file permissions by adding the cvs
users
> > into the Administrators group.  This should not be necessary from my
> > understanding of Cygwin and the ntsec patch.  This is a bit of a
security
> > hole since these users have no reason to be Administrators on my Windows
XP
> > Professional server.  I think that the permission problem I am
experiencing
> > in the cvs repository is some kind of bug in the ntsec patch.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Priest" <mpriest AT erols DOT com>
> > To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:33 AM
> > Subject: File Permission Problems on Windows XP, cygwin 1.3.22
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I am serving a cvs repository from a Windows XP Professional machine
under
> >>Cygwin 1.3.22 and I believe that I am having a file permissions problem
in
> >>the cvs repository.  My repository is located at /cvs and all cvs users
> >>belong to the "cvs" group as their primary group.  All directories in
the
> >>repository have rwx permissions for this group as well as for the owner.
> >>Therefore, I should be able to replace the ,v files with a new version
as
> >>part of a commit for any users in the cvs group.  However, only the
owner
> >
> > of
> >
> >>each ,v file (i.e. the developer that added or last modified the file)
can
> >>successfully commit.  The CYGWIN environment variable is set to 'ntsec'.
> >>
> >>When I commit files from a user that is not the owner of the file the
> >
> > commit
> >
> >>fails as follows:
> >>
> >>cvs -t commit -m "try commit" readme.txt (in directory C:\dev\bar)
> >>cvs commit: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:ext:markp AT 192 DOT 168 DOT 2 DOT 105:/cvs
> >> -> Starting server: plink.exe 192.168.2.105 -i
> >>C:\keys\mpriest_private.PPK -l markp cvs server
> >> -> Sending file `readme.txt' to server
> >>S-> write_lock(/cvs/bar)
> >>S-> checkout (/cvs/bar/readme.txt,v, 1.1.1.1, , (function))
> >>S-> Parse_Info (/cvs/CVSROOT/commitinfo, bar, ALL)
> >>Checking in readme.txt;
> >>/cvs/bar/readme.txt,v  <--  readme.txt
> >>S-> Parse_Info (/cvs/CVSROOT/verifymsg, bar, not ALL)
> >>S-> checkout (/cvs/bar/readme.txt,v, 1.1, -ko, /tmp/cvs003472)
> >>new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
> >>S-> rename(/cvs/bar/,readme.txt,,/cvs/bar/readme.txt,v)
> >>cvs [server aborted]: cannot rename file /cvs/bar/,readme.txt, to
> >>/cvs/bar/readme.txt,v: Permission denied
> >>S-> unlink_file(/cvs/bar/,readme.txt,)
> >>S-> Lock_Cleanup()
> >>
> >>I have seen this error message discussed on the cvs mailing list
archives
> >>but those discussion were only relevant for cases where people hosted
the
> >>repository on a network share.  My /cvs repository is in a local hard
disk
> >>directory.
> >>
> >>When I try to emulate a file move as this same user, markp, directly in
> >
> > the
> >
> >>repository at the cygwin command prompt I experience the same permission
> >>error as follows:
> >>
> >>markp AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ id
> >>uid=1019(markp) gid=1015(cvs) groups=513(None),545(Users),1015(cvs)
> >>
> >>markp AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ pwd
> >>/cvs/bar
> >>
> >>markp AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ ls -alF
> >>total 3
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   2 cvs      cvs             0 Jul  3 02:48 ./
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   7 cvs      cvs             0 Jun 30 17:16 ../
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 cvsuser  cvs           423 Jun 30 17:33 readme.txt,v
> >>
> >>markp AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ cp readme.txt,v tmp
> >>
> >>markp AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ ls -alF
> >>total 4
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   2 cvs      cvs             0 Jul  3 02:50 ./
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   7 cvs      cvs             0 Jun 30 17:16 ../
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 cvsuser  cvs           423 Jun 30 17:33 readme.txt,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           423 Jul  3 02:50 tmp
> >>
> >>markp AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ mv tmp readme.txt,v
> >>mv: cannot move `tmp' to `readme.txt,v': Permission denied
> >>
> >>markp AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ echo $CYGWIN
> >>ntsec
> >>
> >>markp AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>
> >>
> >>When I perform this same operation as the file owner the attempt
succeeds
> >>(and so does a regular CVS commit operation) as follows:
> >>
> >>cvsuser AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ id
> >>uid=1016(cvsuser) gid=1015(cvs) groups=513(None),545(Users),1015(cvs)
> >>
> >>cvsuser AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ echo $CYGWIN
> >>ntsec
> >>
> >>cvsuser AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ pwd
> >>/cvs/bar
> >>
> >>cvsuser AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ ls -alF
> >>total 3
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   2 cvs      cvs             0 Jul  3 02:53 ./
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   7 cvs      cvs             0 Jun 30 17:16 ../
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 cvsuser  cvs           423 Jun 30 17:33 readme.txt,v
> >>
> >>cvsuser AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ cp readme.txt,v tmp
> >>
> >>cvsuser AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ ls -alF
> >>total 4
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   2 cvs      cvs             0 Jul  3 02:53 ./
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   7 cvs      cvs             0 Jun 30 17:16 ../
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 cvsuser  cvs           423 Jun 30 17:33 readme.txt,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 cvsuser  cvs           423 Jul  3 02:53 tmp
> >>
> >>cvsuser AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ mv tmp readme.txt,v
> >>
> >>cvsuser AT markonius /cvs/bar
> >>$ ls -alF
> >>total 3
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   2 cvs      cvs             0 Jul  3 02:53 ./
> >>drwxrwxr-x+   7 cvs      cvs             0 Jun 30 17:16 ../
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 markp    cvs           406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v
> >>-r--r--r--    1 cvsuser  cvs           423 Jul  3 02:53 readme.txt,v
> >>
> >>I have attached the results of cygcheck to this email and I have the
> >
> > CYGWIN
> >
> >>environment variable set to 'ntsec'.
> >>
> >>Please help me understand what is wrong with my repository file
> >
> > permissions.
> >
> >>Thanks,
> >>Mark
>
>
> --
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