Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-10 Thread Chaz Littlejohn
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: The simplest way to determine where Cygwin is routed is to look at what's returned from the 'mount' command. For detailed information on how Cygwin sets up the mount table, see:

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Chaz Littlejohn
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: Hi, Wanted to check to see if you were aware of this permissions bug when using Cygwin in Windows 8: http://superuser.com/questions/397288/using-cygwin-in-windows-8-chmod-600-does-not-work-as-expected

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: Hi, Wanted to check to see if you were aware of this permissions bug when using Cygwin in Windows 8:

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2012 3:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: Hi, Wanted to check to see if you were aware of this permissions bug when using Cygwin in Windows 8:

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Chaz Littlejohn
On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: a workaround was already available on first link you provided chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh I had tried this earlier running the chgrp.exe, but it threw an error saying unknown group 'Users'. I assume this is because when chgrp.exe is located outside of

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: a workaround was already available on first link you provided chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh I had tried this earlier running the chgrp.exe, but it threw an error saying unknown group 'Users'. I assume

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Chaz Littlejohn
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: a workaround was already available on first link you provided chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh I had tried this earlier running the chgrp.exe, but it threw an error saying

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2012 4:24 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: a workaround was already available on first link you provided chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh I had tried this earlier

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-04 Thread Chaz Littlejohn
By my understanding, if you're distributing GPLv3+ software such as cygwin1.dll, these are not rights you can withhold on that software. This is true for all GPL versions. Cygwin's license is GPL with an exception to allow any Open Source product to not be infected but that is the

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/4/2012 4:34 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: By my understanding, if you're distributing GPLv3+ software such as cygwin1.dll, these are not rights you can withhold on that software. This is true for all GPL versions. Cygwin's license is GPL with an exception to allow any Open Source product

RE: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-03 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Chaz Littlejohn wrote: We bundle several of the Cygwin utilities (rsync.exe, cypath.exe, ssh.exe, ssh-keygen.exe) in with our application rather than forcing users to install Cygwin. Based on your email address, I assume the application you're referring to is Pokeit, downloadable from

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: By my understanding, if you're distributing GPLv3+ software such as cygwin1.dll, these are not rights you can withhold on that software. This is true for all GPL versions. Cygwin's license is GPL with an exception to allow any Open Source