Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eliot Moss! > On 12/22/2019 7:34 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Drive has specific network path, use it. > Thank you, Andrey, but with (admittedly minimal) searching and > playing around, I could not figure out how to determine what > that path is. This is a locally attached (USB) extern

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-23 Thread Eliot Moss
On 12/23/2019 3:55 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:> On 2019-12-22 20:16, Eliot Moss wrote: >> >> So can a \\?\Volume{...} guid name for a volume be used in Cygwin's fstab? >> What would the syntax be like for that? > > Each entry must be on a single line: > > #|/bin/cygwin1.dll > # /etc/fstab - https://c

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-23 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-12-22 20:16, Eliot Moss wrote: > > So can a \\?\Volume{...} guid name for a volume be used in Cygwin's fstab? > What would the syntax be like for that? Each entry must be on a single line: #|/bin/cygwin1.dll # /etc/fstab - https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table #

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-22 Thread Eliot Moss
So can a \\?\Volume{...} guid name for a volume be used in Cygwin's fstab? What would the syntax be like for that? Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Uns

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-22 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-12-22 06:08, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 12/22/2019 7:34 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Drive has specific network path, use it. > > Thank you, Andrey, but with (admittedly minimal) searching and > playing around, I could not figure out how to determine what > that path is.  This is a locally at

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 12/22/2019 7:34 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Drive has specific network path, use it. Thank you, Andrey, but with (admittedly minimal) searching and playing around, I could not figure out how to determine what that path is. This is a locally attached (USB) external drive. And I may be on networ

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eliot Moss! >> For things outside Cygwin root, I strongly suggest "noacl" option. >> Then you won't even need to chown or chmod, except in dire circumstances, >> where some careless program forcibly set permissions to something like 0750. > So how would I do that for a removable NTFS

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eliot Moss! > Dear cygwiners -- > For a long time I _had_ things working, but somehow in switching over to using > cygwin64 as primary, I messed up permissions on the directories where a backup > program (EaseUS) puts things. I made the permissions similar to elsewhere in > by cygwin

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-20 Thread Eliot Moss
And indeed, the problem was that when putting in to use 64-bit xlaunch, I did not set "Run as administrator". Once I set that things worked fine. Ah, the little twiddles we forget! Sorry for wasting your bandwidth, but maybe there was some entertainment value in it for you! EM -- Problem rep

Re: A permissions puzzle

2019-12-20 Thread Eliot Moss
Addendum: here is output from id: uid=197609(moss) gid=197609(moss) groups=197609(moss),401408(Medium Mandatory Level),197610(Cygwin),197611(docker-users),559(Performance Log Users),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization),68585(microsoftacco