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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:19:57 -0400
To: "Fish" <fish AT infidels DOT org>, "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: RESEND man.conf permissions problem
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At 03:34 AM 8/4/2004, you wrote:

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>you need to see my cygcheck output, let me know and I can either send
>that directly to you (zipped) or post it inline in another post.
>Thanks.)


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>Note #2: I have additional information regarding this problem. Please
>see the end of this (re-)post. Thanks.
>


 From the information you provided so far, it looks to me like you installed
initially some things as "Administator" and subsequently some others as 
"fish".  So you have a mix-and-match of file permissions.  I'd recommend 
one of two things:

  1. Completely uninstall and remove the directory that you installed
     Cygwin to.  Recreate the directory as the user you will install as
     and then run 'setup.exe' as that user.

  2. Try changing the owner and/or permissions in your Cygwin tree to 
     something amenable to the user you want to run as (via chown/chmod).

Also, it looks like your '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' need some updating.
Take a look at 'man mkpasswd' and 'man mkgroup' for some information on the
options here.


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