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Re: chmod not working after setting ntsec in CYGWIN environment variable
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, metaperl dot cygwin at gmail dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:14:16 -0700
- Subject: Re: chmod not working after setting ntsec in CYGWIN environment variable
- References: <82a397f60603240905t5eb6a726o83da83b60200907e@mail.gmail.com>
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According to Terrence Brannon on 3/24/2006 10:05 AM:
> Why won't chmod work even after setting CYGWIN properly?
>
> terrence@perl2 ~/.ssh
> $ ls -l
> total 9
> -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 1675 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 396 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa.pub
> -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 733 Mar 13 12:29 known_hosts
^^^^^^^^^^^
Here's the reason - you don't have a valid /etc/passwd and /etc/group file
installed yet, so cygwin does not know what Windows ACL to create. See
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup for details.
> $ chmod -v 600 id_rsa
> mode of `id_rsa' changed to 0600 (rw-------)
>
> terrence@perl2 ~/.ssh
> $ ls -l id_rsa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 1675 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa
Also, you might be using a different filesystem than NTFS, although
following these directions, and attaching 'cygcheck -svr' output as a text
attachment, would have let us know for sure:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
In which case, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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