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Re: permission problem after installation under W2K
At 12:44 PM 4/8/2002, Ulrich Voss wrote:
>Thanks Larry,
>
>I'm not sure, if I got the message ... I think, that you think ;-) that
>the problem is, that my home dir belongs to admins (which was
>administrators or Administratoren before) instead of admin.
>
>When I chown my home dir to admin, ls looks better, but it doesn't
>change anything.
>
>That's what I did:
>
>---
>$ chown admin .
>
>admin@CIABATTA ~
>$ pwd
>/home/admin
>
>
>admin@CIABATTA ~
>$ echo "some dumb string" > testfile
>bash: testfile: Permission denied
>
>admin@CIABATTA ~
>$ ls -la
>total 0
>drwxrwxrwx 2 admin Kein 0 Apr 8 15:11 .
>drwxrwxrwx 4 admin Kein 0 Apr 8 15:11 ..
>
>---
>
>Hmmm?
OK. Better go to strace and cygcheck -s -r -v output. Perhaps it's just
a missing 'ntsec' setting in your CYGWIN environment variable? A review
of pertinent areas of the User's Guide might prove helpful.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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