Hi... Has anyone here played with Windows XP (Whistler Build 2458) and Cygwin yet? I noticed some really funky permissions related problems. As usual, Cygwin is installed on an NTFS partition and my environment has CYGWIN=ntsec. I change the default cygwin file permissions (chown -R administrators.administrators /; chmod -R og-w /; chmod -R a+rwxt /tmp; chmod -R mike.administrators /home/mike). After running ssh-host-config, I change the ownership of the host key files (chown system.system /etc/ssh_host*_key). As soon as I run ssh anything, I get a bad ownership mode for the host keys (should be 0600)... Hehe... they are. So, I changed the permissions back to defaults (chown -R administrators.administrators /; chmod -R 777 /) and removed the ntsec designator from the CYGWIN variable and rebooted. Now, I can log into my Cygwin ssh server without issue. I can also connect from my Cygwin box to other ssh servers without issue. Please note: I'm only posting this as an FYI... I'm not looking for a fix or anything, especially since Windows XP is still in beta. Interestingly, though, going through the Cygwin files through Windows Explorer, even though ssh_host_key was owned by system.system and had 0600 permissions, the file showed that Everyone, Mike and Users had "Special Permissions" including Read, Read attributes, . . . Other than that, though, Windows XP is pretty cool. -ME -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
