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 X-SBRS: None content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:01:36 +0200 Message-ID: <25F7D2213F14794A8767B88203EA2BC9240CBC@mucse201.eu.infineon.com> From: To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j6D61mDq031999 > >Larry, I suspect "ls -l" showed files with permissions > ----------+, which > >Ron interpreted as 000 without noticing the ACL flag. > > Yes, I suspect this as well. Suspection was correct. I did pay no attention to the "+", but I read the info node and saw the hint to "alternate access method". I guess this means that the protection is determined by the Windows ACL. Having realized this, I checked a few files, and from the samples I took, I see that I have problems with chmod and chown only with files where ls -l lists this tiny "+" (see the thread "chmod suddenly ceased to work on old files - NEW FINDINGS" and my most recent posting to "ssh ceased to work after recreation of /etc/passwd" - somehow what I believed to be different problems, might in the end all be related to Windows ACL problems. How does Windows get the ACL from? I guess Windows has a similar concept of user- and group id as Unix. Could it be that in our LDAP directory, my numeric userid was changed, while my user name stayed the same? Sorry for the somewhat fuzzy wording, but I don't have enough knowledge of Windows to formulate it more precisely. Ronald -- 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/