X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43C3C4E2.60309@juno.nrl.navy.mil> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:29:54 -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: Re: 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 Igor, I changed the text of my email to make it more readable, replacing "senior" with "admin" as well as the name of my domain and machine. I'll leave the correct names this time. Yes, I actually did a recursive chown on everything below /, and it still doesn't work. I can't really see the permissions on /usr/bin since it is strangely mounted separately from the other directories in /usr: senior AT romulus /usr $ ls -la total 0 drwxrwx---+ 16 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:31 . drwxrwx---+ 9 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:32 .. drwxrwx---+ 8 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:31 X11R6 drwxrwx---+ 4 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:28 doc drwxrwx---+ 2 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:28 etc drwxrwx---+ 3 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:28 i686-pc-cygwin drwxrwx---+ 2 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:31 i686-pc-mingw32 drwxrwx---+ 11 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:31 include drwxrwx---+ 2 senior Users 0 Jan 10 07:40 info drwxrwx---+ 6 senior Users 0 Jan 10 07:43 local drwxrwx---+ 5 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:29 man drwxrwx---+ 3 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:29 sbin drwxrwx---+ 19 senior Users 0 Jan 10 07:39 share drwxrwx---+ 2 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:28 src drwxrwx---+ 6 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:29 ssl drwxrwx---+ 2 senior Users 0 Jan 9 13:28 tmp senior AT romulus /usr $ mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,noumount) senior AT romulus /usr $ chown -R senior / senior AT romulus /usr $ cd /usr/bin senior AT romulus /usr/bin $ rm rsync.exe rm: cannot remove `rsync.exe': Permission denied senior AT romulus /usr/bin $ chmod u+w /usr/bin senior AT romulus /usr/bin $ rm rsync.exe rm: cannot remove `rsync.exe': Permission denied senior AT romulus /usr/bin $ ls -la rsync.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 senior root 245248 Aug 18 03:56 rsync.exe senior AT romulus /usr/bin $ less /etc/passwd senior AT romulus /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-ROMULUS\Administrator,S-1-5-21-4847 63869-1563985344-682003330-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-ROMULUS\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-ROMULUS\HelpAssistant,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985344-682003330-1000:/home/Hel pAssistant:/bin/bash senior:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-ROMULUS\senior,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985 344-682003330-1003:/home/senior:/bin/bash sshd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1020:513:sshd privsep,U-ROMULUS\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-ROMULUS\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/