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Re: file ownership incorretly displayed
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Gene C. Ruzicka" <gcruzicka at earthlink dot net>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 17:32:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: file ownership incorretly displayed
At 03:07 PM 12/9/2001, Gene C. Ruzicka wrote:
>it seems that file ownership is often not displayed correctly. for example,
>if
>i'm user1 and i type "ls -l" in directory /home , the system says that ALL
>user
>directories belong to user1 . note that user1 need NOT be an administrator.
>but
>cygwin seems to obey the access permissions consistent with the correct
>ownership. for example, user1 can't cd into the directory /home/user2 even
>though the ls command says that that directory belongs to user1.
>
>what explains this behavior? is it a bug or some peculiarity of the
>software?
You might want to review the FAQ and the User's Guide on permissions, etc.
If you still have a question then, send it to the list with details on
what you're doing, what you're seeing, what you think it wrong, and the
output of cygcheck -s -r -v.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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