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: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:06:43 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile Message-ID: <20040920150643.GB1700@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040920081046 DOT E810484CCE AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> <20040920091729 DOT GU17670 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Sep 20 10:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Sep 20 18:10, luke[...] wrote: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Hmmm? Urgh, sorry about that. That's what mutt creates when no real name is given. Does anybody know how to suppress this? I didn't find this in the mutt documentation so far. > > Sorry but this is bogus. There's no difference whether a directory is > > created using Cygwin or Windows. > > Umm, sure there is. Windows Explorer will inherit the permissions of the > parent directory by default, whereas Cygwin will always create a new set > of ACLs (or, at least, I haven't found a way to make Cygwin directories > inherit the parent's ACLs). I don't know how that can make a difference, > but there it is. I wasn't in pedantic mode when writing that. Let's assume that when Luke played with the permissions, he's already changed this to some sufficient value, like, say, the owner may read files in the own directory... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/