I think this article in the FAQ will help. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC44
and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html I hope that this helps. Andrew ___________________________________________ Andrew J. P. Maclean Postal: Australian Centre for Field Robotics The Rose Street Building J04 The University of Sydney 2006 NSW AUSTRALIA Room: 106 Phone: +61 2 9351 3283 Fax: +61 2 9351 7474 http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/ ___________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Sundstrom, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2001 13:41 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: 1.3.5 cp/permissions bug I'm running 1.3.5 on Win2K The cp command doesn't seem to understand permissions correctly. See following example: Administrator@SCANNER$ cd /tmp Administrator@SCANNER$ touch foo Administrator@SCANNER$ chmod 000 foo Administrator@SCANNER$ ls -l total 0 ---------- 1 Administ None 0 Nov 21 13:34 foo Administrator@SCANNER$ cp foo foo1 cp: `foo.exe' and `foo1' are the same file Doing the same on a Solaris box gets the error: cp: can not open foo: Permission denied -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
