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RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade


At 04:27 PM 7/12/2005, you wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> At 10:20 AM 7/12/2005, you wrote:
>> >On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote:
>> >
>> >> > So, except for the pdksh postinstall (which is a genuine bug),
>> >> > everything else seems to be related to the weird permissions on your
>> >> > machine.
>> >>
>> >> Could it be related to the strange fact that my numeric user id
>> >> suddenly has changed from 400 to 121833?
>> >
>> >I'm not sure.
>>
>>
>> Well, this simple fact would not change file permissions from something
>> to 000.  However, if you're permissions previously were not POSIX but
>> only ACLs and those ACLs didn't include your domain user, then you may
>> have somehow been able to create files with POSIX permissions 000 and
>> still been able to access them mostly before your "new" UID appeared.
>> That's a pretty far-fetched conjecture on my part so I wouldn't give it
>> too much credence.  But, the point I want to make is that running
>> mkpasswd/mkgroup isn't going to change file permissions.
>
>Larry, I suspect "ls -l" showed files with permissions ----------+, which
>Ron interpreted as 000 without noticing the ACL flag.

Yes, I suspect this as well.




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