From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26268 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2001 22:34:47 -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 26246 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2001 22:34:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO antiochus-fe0.ultra.net) (146.115.8.188) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2001 22:34:43 -0000 Received: from enterprise-e.Starfleet.com (207-172-245-241.s1003.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.245.241]) by antiochus-fe0.ultra.net (8.8.8/ult/n20340/mtc.v2) with ESMTP id RAA22200; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:34:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20011209173110.016634f8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 16:09:00 -0000 To: "Gene C. Ruzicka" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: file ownership incorretly displayed In-Reply-To: <000701c180ed$329b5650$2cc8b3d1@HUNG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00515.txt.bz2 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 -- 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/