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[1.7] Setup.exe default ownership of files in fresh install [Admin:None?]


Hi,

I really had to give up and ask you all a bit of help understanding
what is going on.
Like the subject summarizes: After a fresh install of cygwin 1.7 (made
with local user Administrator), all folder and files ownerships from
cygwin root are: Administrator:None.

Administrator@vmguest ~
$ ls -la /
total 9
drwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:48 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:48 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Administrator None   57 Apr 17 11:48 Cygwin.bat
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Administrator None 7022 Apr 17 11:48 Cygwin.ico
drwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:47 bin
d--x--x--x  4 Administrator None    0 Dec  1  2006 cygdrive
drwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:47 dev
drwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:47 etc
drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:48 home
drwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:47 lib
dr-xr-xr-x 10 Administrator None    0 Dec  1  2006 proc
drwxrwxrwt  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 13:12 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:47 usr
drwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None    0 Apr 17 11:47 var

This makes very difficult to share the installation with other users -
that will be the main objective in my case...
This is being my number one suspect for a number of difficulties I've
had trying to install a cygwin toolbox (I'll refrain from talking
about that for now) on this host (it's a Vmware guest, actually)
Is this an expected behaviour? Because right now it doesn't seems ok to me...

Besides the usual 'cygcheck -s -v -r' in attach, I also send some
background technical information run from Windows cmd.exe, before
setup.exe runs, just to make sure that the 'Windows view' is the
expected one - and it is.

D:\install\cygwin>whoami /user /groups

USER INFORMATION
----------------

User Name                    SID
============================ ============================================
vmguest\administrator        S-1-5-21-221598610-1224240008-1772044280-500


GROUP INFORMATION
-----------------

Group Name                            Type             SID          Attributes
===================================== ================ ============
===============================================================
Everyone                              Well-known group S-1-1-0
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
BUILTIN\Administrators                Alias            S-1-5-32-544
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group, Group owner
BUILTIN\Users                         Alias            S-1-5-32-545
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\REMOTE INTERACTIVE LOGON Well-known group S-1-5-14
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE              Well-known group S-1-5-4
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users      Well-known group S-1-5-11
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\This Organization        Well-known group S-1-5-15
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
LOCAL                                 Well-known group S-1-2-0
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\NTLM Authentication      Well-known group S-1-5-64-10
Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group

Some light, please...

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___________
Julio Costa

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