X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43C3BE55.6070009@juno.nrl.navy.mil> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:01:57 -0500 From: Ken Senior Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: permissions and ACLs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Cygwin gurus, Frustrated by permission problems resulting from having two accounts with the same user name (one domain, one local) I decided to start over with my cygwin installation. This time, I logged in as local administrator (account name say admin AT local) and installed cygwin as this user. Then, to make sure I could read and use cygwin from my domain account I used the Windows ACLs to also grant my domain account "Full Control" to all the files in C:\cygwin. Thus, both my admin AT local (local admin) and my admin AT domain (domain admin) have Full Control to files in C:\cygwin. But, while logged in both as admin AT local and as admin AT domain I tried from Windows Explorer to delete a file and was informed that I do not have permission! So, I launched the cygwin bash window (from admin AT local) and performed a chmod 777 on the file (which cygwin allowed) and STILL can't delete the file: admin AT local /usr/bin $ ls -la rsync.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 senior Users 245248 Aug 18 03:56 rsync.exe admin AT local /usr/bin $ rm -f rsync.exe rm: cannot remove `rsync.exe': Permission denied admin AT local /usr/bin $ I have read the documentation on NTSEC and from my limited understanding of it was able to glean that using the Windows ACLs was probably not the right way to grant access to the admin AT domain account. What is the best way to allow access of cygwin to *all* administrators and can I repair this permissions on this installation? Thanks again. --- My CYGWIN environment variable is set to "CYGWIN binmode ntsec tty title server" and the /etc/passwd file follows. senior AT LOCAL /usr/bin $ less /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-LOCAL\Administrator,S-1-5-21-4847 63869-1563985344-682003330-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-LOCAL\Guest,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985344 -682003330-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash HelpAssistant:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:Remote Desktop Help Assistant Accoun t,U-LOCAL\HelpAssistant,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985344-682003330-1000:/home/Hel pAssistant:/bin/bash admin:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-LOCAL\admin,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985 344-682003330-1003:/home/admin:/bin/bash sshd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1020:513:sshd privsep,U-LOCAL\sshd,S-1-5-21-48476386 9-1563985344-682003330-1020:/var/empty:/bin/bash SUPPORT_388945a0:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:CN=Microsoft Corporation,L=Redmon d,S=Washington,C=US,U-LOCAL\SUPPORT_388945a0,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985344-682 003330-1002:/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash -- 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/