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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:56:18 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Thomas L Roche <tlroche AT us DOT ibm DOT com>
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Subject: Re: default permissions=600, and can't chmod?
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On 10/10/2005 03:21 PM, Thomas L Roche wrote:
> I'm helping other members of my workgroup setup Cygwin on their winXP
> SP1 laptops (all pretty much like mine) to run an automated build
> process (which depends on ssh-agent). At least one person (I'll call
> him "Steve" :-) reports the following problems (but another person
> currently on vacation may also have this problem), which I haven't yet
> examined in detail (but will do tomorrow):
> 
> * default permissions are 600. Steve starts up a bash login shell (and
>   ~/.bash_profile starts ssh-agent), then runs an ant script that
>   checks out files from CVS. The permissions on all created files are
>   600. Among the created files are some JARs: when the process
>   subsequently tries to
> 
> 
>>java -jar foo.jar
> 
> 
>   (in the same directory as the jar) it gets the error
> 
> 
>>cannot access foo.jar
> 
> 
> * user cannot chmod files. When Steve tries to
> 
> 
>>chmod 755 foo.jar
> 
> 
>   from his shell, the command runs without error, but
> 
> 
>>ls -al foo.jar
> 
> 
>   shows no change in permissions (still 600).
> 
> Steve has a fair amount of Unix experience, but very little Cygwin
> experience, and has a fresh (mid-Sep 05) install of Cygwin. I run the
> same ant script and don't have this problem, but I've been running
> Cygwin lots longer. 
> 
> I'm wondering, what might cause this problem? Are there things I
> should look for, or should do, when I check Steve's cygwin? Apologies
> if this is a FAQ, but I didn't see anything closely related in
> 
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html


What about this?

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod>


> Please feel free to reply directly to me as well as the group, and
> TIA.


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