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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:06:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: 1.5.13-1 : can't cd anywhere with non-admin account
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Corinna, thanks you very much! the "notraverse" keyword did the trick.

I don't really understand what do you mean by "it checks the
permissions of the parent directory"... As long as I can "traverse"
with windows acls in the windows world (and it is presently the case)
I should be able to do the same with cygwin semantics, right?


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:54:00 +0100, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Mar  4 10:29, Fran?ois-David Collin wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I upgraded from 1.5.12 to 1.5.13, and it seems that with a non-admin
> > account, I can't "cd" anymore : any cygwin programs trying to access
> > something from the "/" got a Permission denied error.
> 
> 1.5.13 has changed to using "traverse checking" by default which means,
> it now checks not only the permissions of the files and directories
> the application is accessing, but also the permissions of the parent
> directories (well, as far as Windows is doing the "right thing"(tm)).
> 
> If you can't set POSIX-compatible permissions on your directory tree
> for some reason, try setting the environment variable CYGWIN to
> contain the word "notraverse".
> 
> Corinna
> 
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François-David Collin
Équipe Réseau
Institut Curie
Section de Recherche

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