Re: permission problem after installation under W2K

2002-04-09 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:53 AM 4/9/2002, Ulrich Voss wrote: >Hi, > > > > > OK. Better go to strace and cygcheck -s -r -v output. Perhaps it's > > just a missing 'ntsec' setting in your CYGWIN environment variable? > >No it's there ... > >--- >$ cygcheck -s -c -v | grep ntsec >CYGWIN = `tty ntsec' >--- OK, wha

Re: permission problem after installation under W2K

2002-04-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ulrich, Check out my response on the "tar won't restore permissions" thread () for notes on setting CYGWIN to include ntsec. CYGWIN must be set before _any_ Cygwin application starts up, because it's only during the DLL initialization that "n

Re: permission problem after installation under W2K

2002-04-09 Thread Ulrich Voss
Hi, > > OK. Better go to strace and cygcheck -s -r -v output. Perhaps it's > just a missing 'ntsec' setting in your CYGWIN environment variable? No it's there ... --- $ cygcheck -s -c -v | grep ntsec CYGWIN = `tty ntsec' --- > A > review of pertinent areas of the User's Guide might prove

Re: permission problem after installation under W2K

2002-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:44 PM 4/8/2002, Ulrich Voss wrote: >Thanks Larry, > >I'm not sure, if I got the message ... I think, that you think ;-) that >the problem is, that my home dir belongs to admins (which was >administrators or Administratoren before) instead of admin. > >When I chown my home dir to admin, ls

Re: permission problem after installation under W2K

2002-04-08 Thread Ulrich Voss
Thanks Larry, I'm not sure, if I got the message ... I think, that you think ;-) that the problem is, that my home dir belongs to admins (which was administrators or Administratoren before) instead of admin. When I chown my home dir to admin, ls looks better, but it doesn't change anything.

Re: permission problem after installation under W2K

2002-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
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

permission problem after installation under W2K

2002-04-08 Thread Ulrich Voss
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. -- admi