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Re: RESEND man.conf permissions problem
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Fish" <fish at infidels dot org>, "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:19:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: RESEND man.conf permissions problem
- References: <000101c479f5$689fad60$0100a8c0@asswipe>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 03:34 AM 8/4/2004, you wrote:
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From the information you provided so far, it looks to me like you installed
initially some things as "Administator" and subsequently some others as
"fish". So you have a mix-and-match of file permissions. I'd recommend
one of two things:
1. Completely uninstall and remove the directory that you installed
Cygwin to. Recreate the directory as the user you will install as
and then run 'setup.exe' as that user.
2. Try changing the owner and/or permissions in your Cygwin tree to
something amenable to the user you want to run as (via chown/chmod).
Also, it looks like your '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' need some updating.
Take a look at 'man mkpasswd' and 'man mkgroup' for some information on the
options here.
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