Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

[James D Below <James dot Below at grc dot nasa dot gov>]

In further troubleshooting, I verified the w2k sp4 the policy settings with 
another w2k sp4 system that works. No differences were found.  I did find 
that the version of cygwin that I was running was different. The version of 
cygwin on the working system is 1.3.22-1.

I removed my broken installation of cygwin 1.5.5.1 and installed 1.3.22-1 
and my system function correctly. No more "CreateFileMapping - Win32 error 5".

I have attached the cygcheck from the working installation as cygcheck.good

I have attached the cygcheck from the broken installation as cygcheck.bad

Just to verify that 1.5.5.1 still didn't work, I updated the working 
1.3.22-1 installation and sure enough the "CreateFileMapping" error 
occurred. I also tried the 1.5.4.1 version and that also had this same error.

Here is a getfacl and a ls of "ls.exe"
getfacl /bin/ls.exe
# file: /bin/ls.exe
# owner: Administrator
# group: Users
user::---
group::---
mask:rwx
other:rwx

/bin/ls -l /bin/ls
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Users       68608 Jun 15  2001 /bin/ls


I have never installed/built cygwin from snapshot.  I'll give it a try and 
get back with you.

thanks.

At 05:12 PM 10/3/2003 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, James D Below wrote:
>
> > HI everyone,
> >
> > I'm not sure how I did it but I messed up my user permissions or local
> > policy settings.  Now whenever I run any cygwin app (bash.exe, wc.exe,
> > rxvt.exe) from a w2k terminal session and logged in as a user, I see the
> > following error:
> >
> >   **** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5.  Terminating.
> >
> > I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 and CYGWIN = binmode tty ntsec
> >
> > More specific details....
> >
> > If I am logged into the console I can run any cygwin apps. When I log in
> > remotely to the server through ssh, everything is fine.  The only time a
> > problem occurs is when I login through a terminal server client using an
> > account other than "Administrator". The administrator account doesn't
> > experience problem. A user account belonging in the Administrators 
> group does.
> >
> > I am at a loss trying to figure out which policy/permission was changed to
> > cause this problem.
> >
> > I've been google'ing for a few days trying to track down what might have
> > changed but to no avail.
> >
> > Any hints on troubleshooting errors like this or an idea as to what
> > permission/policy is needed for "CreateFileMapping", would be appreciated.
> >
> > If a cygcheck would be helpful let me know and I will send one.
> >
> > thanks
> > James
>
> A cygcheck output wouldn't hurt in any case (please attach it, though,
> rather than including it inline), but another piece of information that
> might help is the output of "ls -l /bin/ls.exe; getfacl /bin/ls.exe".
>
> BTW, "net helpmsg 5" results in "Access is denied".
>         Igor
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