From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7548 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2001 20:00:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7525 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2001 20:00:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net) (207.217.120.50) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2001 20:00:15 -0000 Received: from pool0554.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.200.44] helo=HUNG) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16DA7S-0002ww-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 09 Dec 2001 12:00:14 -0800 Message-ID: <000701c180ed$329b5650$2cc8b3d1@HUNG> From: "Gene C. Ruzicka" To: Subject: file ownership incorretly displayed Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 12:17:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00506.txt.bz2 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? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/