In the cygwin.bat file, put in the following line: set CYGWIN=ntsec This will let you get a reasonable semblance of Unix-like security. When I do this I am able to set/change file permissions.
Hope that this helps. It seems to: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ touch x Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ ls -ln x -r-xr-xr-x 1 2120 513 973 Nov 22 10:46 x Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ chmod 000 x Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ ls -ln x ---------- 1 2120 513 973 Nov 22 10:46 x Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $cp x y cp: `x.exe' and `y' are the same file ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that if I don't have ntsec set, I get this result: Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ touch x Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ ls -ln x -rw-r--r-- 1 500 513 0 Nov 22 10:51 x Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ chmod 000 x Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ ls -ln x -r--r--r-- 1 500 513 0 Nov 22 10:51 x Administrator@MIMOSA ~ $ cp x y ___________________________________________ 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: Thursday, 22 November 2001 10:22 To: 'Andrew J. P. Maclean ' Subject: RE: 1.3.5 cp/permissions bug Hello Andrew. I've read through the FAQ before, but I read it again and still can't see the relevance to my case. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Andrew J. P. Maclean To: 'Sundstrom, Peter'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22/11/2001 9:07 AM Subject: RE: 1.3.5 cp/permissions bug 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/
