From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3492 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2002 17:10:54 -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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 3368 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2002 17:10:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web14505.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.224.68) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2002 17:10:52 -0000 Message-ID: <20021103171047.32595.qmail@web14505.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.44.4.248] by web14505.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:10:47 PST Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:10:00 -0000 From: amores perros Subject: ]Should ntsec & autotools work under XP prof ? To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Subject : Should ntsec & autotools work under XP prof ? Date : Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:53:57 +0000 As I have stock default security token in my "limited" account, and a stock cygwin distribution, AFAIK, and autotools is not compatible with ntsec on my system, I wonder if anyone else has it working ? That is, has anyone seen these three all work together ? i) installation & use as a normal user ii) ntsec iii) autotools I ran the cygwin setup as my normal user, and when prompted, gave it credentials for an administrator. I deduce that the cygwin loader uses NT permissions to determine whether I can run an executable, as all the executables in /user/bin list as -rwx------ Administ None yet it still lets me run them, and in fact the NT permissions allow Users to Read&Execute. So I assume that this is a vagary of the ntsec mapping that the permissions are being displayed as not executable to users, and that this is not the reality of what the loader obeys. I guess that the -x shell test used in the autotools wrappers is actually implemented by looking at the unix permissions not the NT permissions, and as the unix permissions are wrong (as mentioned above) this is why the autotools wrappers fail. I don't know the architectural answer as to - should the -x shell test look at the real NT permissions or - should the unix permissions more realistically reflect the NT permissions or - is it not possible to get the -x shell test correct for cygwin Anyway, if anyone knows the answer to my compabitility curiosity (autotools + ntsec + non-administrative user) or if this jogs any memories, I'd be curious to hear any reactions. Cordially, Perry [I made a yahoo mail account, b/c the cygwin mail list bounces email from hotmail, at least sometimes.) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ -- 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/