Cygwin gurus,
Frustrated by permission problems resulting from having two accounts
with the same user name (one domain, one local) I decided to start over
with my cygwin installation. This time, I logged in as local
administrator (account name say [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and installed cygwin as
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Ken Senior wrote:
Cygwin gurus,
Frustrated by permission problems resulting from having two accounts
with the same user name (one domain, one local) I decided to start over
with my cygwin installation.
Instead of simply changing one of the usernames as I suggested...
Igor,
I changed the text of my email to make it more readable, replacing
senior with admin as well as the name of my domain and machine.
I'll leave the correct names this time.
Yes, I actually did a recursive chown on everything below /, and it
still doesn't work. I can't really see the
Btw, to further help diagnose, I notice the read-only box is shaded
and checked for the C:\cygwin directory. I have repeatedly (as
administrator on the machine) tried to uncheck this box. The dialog at
first appears to let me uncheck it, but when I go back into the dialog,
the read-only box
to
files in C:\cygwin. But, while logged in both as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried from Windows Explorer to delete a file and was
informed that I do not have permission!
Cygwin doesn't have an independent set of file permissions, the acls of windows
are just translated
Ken Senior schrieb:
Btw, to further help diagnose, I notice the read-only box is shaded
and checked for the C:\cygwin directory. I have repeatedly (as
administrator on the machine) tried to uncheck this box. The dialog at
first appears to let me uncheck it, but when I go back into the
Ok, I tried attrib to no avail. After the machine accepted and seemed
to process the commands, I entered the file properties dialog and the
read-only box is still shaded. Also, I still can't delete the
C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe file.
C:\cygwin\binmount
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system
Ken Senior schrieb:
Ok, I tried attrib to no avail. After the machine accepted and seemed
to process the commands, I entered the file properties dialog and the
read-only box is still shaded.
This box is irrelevant.
Also, I still can't delete the
C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe file.
Please
C:\cygwincd bin
C:\cygwin\binattrib rsync.exe
A C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe
C:\cygwin\bincacls rsync.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe SPACEAPPS\senior:F
ROMULUS\senior:F
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Ken Senior schrieb:
C:\cygwin\bincacls rsync.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe SPACEAPPS\senior:F
ROMULUS\senior:F
So if i get this right ROMOLUS is your local machine.
The rights look good.
Now, if you can't delete that file logged in as ROMOLUS\senior using cmd.exe and
Yes, ROMULUS is my local machine and senior the administrator on it.
Sometimes you just have to cut your losses. Thanks for the help, but I
was able to rename the C:\cygwin directory, then delete it. I couldn't
just delete it first, only after renaming it, which surprisingly I was
allowed
Ken Senior schrieb:
Yes, ROMULUS is my local machine and senior the administrator on it.
Just for the record, can it be that senior is in the Administrators group and
not the name changed real Adminstrator?
Sometimes you just have to cut your losses. Thanks for the help, but I
was able to
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