Evan Platt wrote:
This is XP home, which I don't believe has folder ownership?
It does but it just doesn't have the gui tools to manipulate it. You can
see the ownership information from explorer by selecting owner from the
choose details option. To change ownership you have to download cacls.e
Evan Platt wrote:
At 03:47 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
If your getting access denied then you're not the owner.
Only one user on this system, and I'm the one who installed it...
So what's that supposed to mean. Just because you're the only "user" on
the system does not mean that there are not other u
At 05:20 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Evan Platt wrote:
> This is XP home, which I don't believe has folder ownership?
It does. What it doesn't have is the UI dialog to change it.
One way to change the ownership would be Cygwin's "chown" program, but, as
you've deleted most of Cyg
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Evan Platt wrote:
> This is XP home, which I don't believe has folder ownership?
It does. What it doesn't have is the UI dialog to change it.
One way to change the ownership would be Cygwin's "chown" program, but, as
you've deleted most of Cygwin, that's not really an optio
At 03:47 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
If your getting access denied then you're not the owner.
Only one user on this system, and I'm the one who installed it...
What do you see when you open an Explorer, right click on the Cygwin
folder, select Properties. Do you see a Security tab.
Nope, I have Gen
Evan Platt wrote:
At 02:20 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
My guess is that it's a Windows NTFS permissions issue. Assuming you
want to blow away the entire C:\cygwin tree and start again fresh:
log on as Administrator, take ownership recursively of the entire
tree, and reset permissions recursively
At 02:34 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
Try configuring Cygwin on the server end to use the "nontsec" option.
This causes new files to be created with inherited NT permissions as
opposed to the "Unix-Like" permissions. I know this has solved a lot of
problems for our team.
Just set or modify the global
> >My guess is that it's a Windows NTFS permissions issue.
> Assuming you want to
> >blow away the entire C:\cygwin tree and start again fresh: log on as
> >Administrator, take ownership recursively of the entire
> tree, and reset
> >permissions recursively of the entire tree. You then shoul
At 02:20 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
My guess is that it's a Windows NTFS permissions issue. Assuming you want to
blow away the entire C:\cygwin tree and start again fresh: log on as
Administrator, take ownership recursively of the entire tree, and reset
permissions recursively of the entire tree.
Evan Platt wrote:
> ... I have the following directories that won't delete (all under
> \Cygwin):
My guess is that it's a Windows NTFS permissions issue. Assuming you want to
blow away the entire C:\cygwin tree and start again fresh: log on as
Administrator, take ownership recursively of the ent
Ok, if I missed this somehow via my google, FAQ, and deja search, forgive
me and point me in the right direction. I have the following directories
that won't delete (all under \Cygwin):
\bin
\etc
\home
\lib
\sendmail
\tmp
\usr
A number of these have subdirectories, all have files.
I rebooted int
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