At 11:43 AM 4/8/2002, Ulrich Voss wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm a long time Cygwin User and I am very happy with this great
>piece of software. Thanks for your great work!
>
>I am forced to upgrade to W2K. And now the trouble begins ...
>
>Problem: I cannot write to my home dir. Changing files is fine, but I
>cannot create new files.
>
>--------------
>
>admin@CIABATTA ~
>$ cd ~
>
>admin@CIABATTA ~
>$ pwd
>/home/admin
^^^^^^
>admin@CIABATTA ~
>$ ls -la
>total 0
>drwxrwxrwx 2 admins Kein 0 Apr 8 15:11 .
^^^^^^^ ^^
>drwxrwxrwx 4 admin Kein 0 Apr 8 15:11 ..
>
>admin@CIABATTA ~
>$ echo "some dumb string" > testfile
>bash: testfile: Permission denied
>
>---------------
>
>I downloaded the latest cygwin and installed it. I did a setup for all
>users. I added the CYGWIN environment variable to tty ntsec under
>W2K preferences.
>
>Is this a problem with my /etc/passwd? Here is it:
>---
>jeder:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
>system:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
>admins:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>admin::500:544:U-CIABATTA\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1935655697-
^^^^^^
>920026266-854245398-500:/home/admin:/bin/bash
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oops!!
>---
>
>This may look a bit strange for most of you, but this the German
>version of W2K. Perhaps this is the cause for the problem, but I
>doubt it, because I'm surely not the only German user of Cygwin ...
>
>I hope, this isn't a stupid FAQ.
No, it isn't. I hope it doesn't become one! ;-)
Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
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