Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Holger Krull
Ken Senior schrieb: Yes, ROMULUS is my local machine and senior the administrator on it. Just for the record, can it be that senior is in the Administrators group and not the name changed real Adminstrator? Sometimes you just have to cut your losses. Thanks for the help, but I was able to r

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Ken Senior
Yes, ROMULUS is my local machine and senior the administrator on it. Sometimes you just have to cut your losses. Thanks for the help, but I was able to rename the C:\cygwin directory, then delete it. I couldn't just delete it first, only after renaming it, which surprisingly I was allowed to

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Holger Krull
Ken Senior schrieb: C:\cygwin\bin>cacls rsync.exe C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe SPACEAPPS\senior:F ROMULUS\senior:F So if i get this right ROMOLUS is your local machine. The rights look good. Now, if you can't delete that file logged in as ROMOLUS\senior using cmd.exe and

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Ken Senior
C:\cygwin>cd bin C:\cygwin\bin>attrib rsync.exe A C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe C:\cygwin\bin>cacls rsync.exe C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe SPACEAPPS\senior:F ROMULUS\senior:F -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Holger Krull
Ken Senior schrieb: Ok, I tried attrib to no avail. After the machine accepted and seemed to process the commands, I entered the file properties dialog and the read-only box is still shaded. This box is irrelevant. Also, I still can't delete the C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe file. Please gi

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Ken Senior
Ok, I tried attrib to no avail. After the machine accepted and seemed to process the commands, I entered the file properties dialog and the read-only box is still shaded. Also, I still can't delete the C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe file. C:\cygwin\bin>mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (b

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Holger Krull
Ken Senior schrieb: Btw, to further help diagnose, I notice the "read-only" box is shaded and checked for the C:\cygwin directory. I have repeatedly (as administrator on the machine) tried to uncheck this box. The dialog at first appears to let me uncheck it, but when I go back into the dialo

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Holger Krull
Ken Senior schrieb: Frustrated by permission problems resulting from having two accounts with the same user name (one domain, one local) I decided to start over with my cygwin installation. This time, I logged in as local administrator (account name say [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and installed cygwin

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Ken Senior
Btw, to further help diagnose, I notice the "read-only" box is shaded and checked for the C:\cygwin directory. I have repeatedly (as administrator on the machine) tried to uncheck this box. The dialog at first appears to let me uncheck it, but when I go back into the dialog, the "read-only" b

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Ken Senior
Igor, I changed the text of my email to make it more readable, replacing "senior" with "admin" as well as the name of my domain and machine. I'll leave the correct names this time. Yes, I actually did a recursive chown on everything below /, and it still doesn't work. I can't really see t

Re: permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Ken Senior wrote: > Cygwin gurus, > > Frustrated by permission problems resulting from having two accounts > with the same user name (one domain, one local) I decided to start over > with my cygwin installation. Instead of simply changing one of the usernames as I suggested..

permissions and ACLs

2006-01-10 Thread Ken Senior
Cygwin gurus, Frustrated by permission problems resulting from having two accounts with the same user name (one domain, one local) I decided to start over with my cygwin installation. This time, I logged in as local administrator (account name say [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and installed cygwin as t