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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:36:37 -0400
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, FischRon DOT external AT infineon DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade
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At 10:20 AM 7/12/2005, you wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote:
>
>> > So, except for the pdksh postinstall (which is a genuine bug),
>> > everything else seems to be related to the weird permissions on your
>> > machine.
>>
>> Could it be related to the strange fact that my numeric user id
>> suddenly has changed from 400 to 121833?
>
>I'm not sure. 


Well, this simple fact would not change file permissions from something
to 000.  However, if you're permissions previously were not POSIX but 
only ACLs and those ACLs didn't include your domain user, then you may
have somehow been able to create files with POSIX permissions 000 and 
still been able to access them mostly before your "new" UID appeared.  
That's a pretty far-fetched conjecture on my part so I wouldn't give it 
too much credence.  But, the point I want to make is that running 
mkpasswd/mkgroup isn't going to change file permissions.


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