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Can't change perm's although I'm owner
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- Subject: Can't change perm's although I'm owner
- From: Pavel Kudrna <Pavel dot Kudrna at mff dot cuni dot cz>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:03:17 +0200
Hi!
I can't change permissions using chmod. Although I am the owner of
the directory, see below. What am I doing wrong?
Can anybody point me to any info about inheritance of permissions with
respect to Cygwin? To my surprise I found nothing about that at Cygwin
website.
My account is member of Administrators group. In /etc/passwd file my
primary group is also set to Administrators (544).
NT4.0 SP6a, no domain, Cygwin 1.3.3, CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec,
all mounts mounted binary and system.
Thanks
Pavel Kudrna.
kudrna@MYCOMP /
$ chmod ugo=rwx /home
chmod: changing permissions of `/home': Permission denied
kudrna@MYCOMP /
$ ls -la
total 866
drwxrwxrwx 12 kudrna Administ 4096 Sep 14 10:46 .
drwxrwxrwx 12 kudrna Administ 4096 Sep 14 10:46 ..
d--------- 0 kudrna Administ 0 Jul 25 18:02 RECYCLER
drwx------ 4 kudrna Administ 4096 Jun 18 15:56 TclTk
drwxrwxrwx 3 kudrna Administ 114688 Sep 13 10:53 bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kudrna Administ 75 Jul 27 18:48 cygwin.bat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kudrna Administ 766 Sep 13 10:53 cygwin.ico
d--------- 0 kudrna Administ 0 Sep 14 12:45 etc
d--------- 0 kudrna Administ 0 Sep 13 13:20 home
d--------- 0 kudrna Administ 0 Sep 13 10:53 lib
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kudrna Administ 291 Oct 27 2000 mnt
d--------- 0 kudrna Administ 0 Jul 24 18:08 sbin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kudrna Administ 6857 Sep 13 10:53 setup.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kudrna Administ 749172 Sep 13 10:53 setup.log.full
d--------- 0 kudrna Administ 0 Aug 29 17:56 tmp
d--------- 0 kudrna Administ 0 Sep 13 10:51 usr
d--------- 0 kudrna Administ 0 Sep 2 14:31 var
kudrna@MYCOMP /
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