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Subject: Re: chmod permission denied on windows 2008
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On Jul  3 13:25, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Running chmod under 2008 simply doesnt seem to work here,
> which is really strange.
>
> [root AT blade0]/: id
> uid=500(root) gid=513(None) 
> groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(testuser)
>
> [root AT blade0]/tmp: touch test
>
> [root AT blade0]/tmp: chown testuser test
> chown: changing ownership of `test': Permission denied
>
> [root AT blade0]/tmp: ls -l test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root None 0 Jul  3 13:15 test
> [root AT blade0]/tmp:
>
> [root AT blade0]/tmp: grep testuser /etc/passwd
> testuser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:Test 
> User,U-BLADE0\testuser,S-1-5-21-1034854827-3221323542-428946914-1002:/usr/home/testuser:/bin/bash
>
> [root AT blade0]/: grep testuser /etc/group
> testuser:S-1-5-32-545:545:

Huh?  Why did you do that?  This is the entry for the Users group.
It doesn't seem to make sense to rename it for Cygwin.

> [root AT blade0]/: ls -l |grep tmp
> drwxrwxrwt+  3 Administrators None   4096 Jul  3 13:22 tmp
>
> All this works fine on XP and 2003 but is there something silly
> I'm missing for 2008?

Works fine for me on 2008 so I assume some local setting which
disallows this.  Did you remove the "Back up privileg and directories"
privilege from the admin's account, by any chance?

You could run this under strace and see what Win32 error message
you get.  It could be helpful.


Corinna

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