* nanothief (Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:15:01 -0700 (PDT)) > I've installed cygwin onto my usb drive using the guide at > http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/ but I am having > problems with file permissions with it. For various reasons, I choose to > install cygwin onto a ntfs partition. When I create files on one computer > from within cygwin, and then try to edit them from another computer, the > permissions are denied for it. Also, if one computer the login is "Fred", > and it is different on another computer, the owner and group become either > random numbers or question marks. > > To fix this, is either of the following two settings possible: > 1) Disable file permissions on cygwin. Even if a file is not owned by the > current user, I could still edit it. > 2) Allow a user/group combination that is not tied to the windows > environment the cygwin is running on. For example, root:root. (this would be > best) > > The last solution I could think of was removing the umask 022 command from > the /etc/profile. This (I think) would have the effect of making all new > created files having 777 or 666 permissions. However, does this affect files > created from scripts or other programs? Or is there another solution to my > problem that I haven't thought of?
Yeah, switch back to FAT. I had the same issue. NTFS without permissions is senseless. Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
