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Subject:  Re: cygwin file permissions change after installation
Date:  Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:36:55 -0500
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> "H. S." wrote:
> 
> 
>>Am I supposed to make any changes to certain files's permissions after
>>installing Cygwin? I installed Cygwin (ver 1.5.18-1) and noticed that
>>many websites suggesting changing certain files' permissions to
>>system:system. This installation was on Windows XP computer.
> 
> 
> If you're talking about a website that tries to tell you how to install
> sshd, then ignore it completely.  Then remove it from your bookmarks. 
> Then never visit it again.  You don't have to do any of that nonsense,
> all you have to do is run ssh-host-config.  Sadly there seem to be many
> of these "helpful" sites that give misleading, outdated, or outright
> bogus information about sshd.
> 
> It's normal for the sshd.log file to be empty because sshd logs to the
> event log.
> 
> Brian
> 

:D

No, I never really did anything out of the ordinary about this. Just 
what the installation and setup scripts asked me to -- and since 
everything is working: ssh, rsync, etc, I guess the installation went okay.

As you mention, there are so many sites that tell you to do chmod 
system:system that it made wonder what was the real deal behind this.

thanks,
->HS




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