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Subject:  Re: cygwin file permissions change after installation
Date:  Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:30:45 -0500
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> "H. S." wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> In fact it is required that certain files and directories be owned by
> the user that runs sshd (which in most cases is SYSTEM.)  But
> ssh-host-config does all this for you, so the need to do it by hand
> should never occur.
> 
> Brian
> 

hmm .. I don't know about this. I don't seem to have any file with 
SYSTEM as the user:
$ find /cygdrive/d/cygwin/ -name * -user system
$ find /cygdrive/d/cygwin/ -name * -user SYSTEM

the above commands give me nothing. What gives?

->HS


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