From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17442 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2003 09:45:38 -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 17434 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2003 09:45:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nnhims) (62.172.235.254) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Sep 2003 09:45:37 -0000 Received: by nnhims with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:47:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE2C@NNHML2> From: "Hughes, Bill" To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: man 1.5j - can't find cat, tbl, nroff, less Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:58:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01530.txt.bz2 Sent: 23 September 2003 17:32 From: Kevin Van Workum > I had the same problem this morning after changing the share permission on > my C-drive from Everyone, to Administrator and Kevin. Once I added > Administrators (note the "s"), the problem was fixed. I guess /bin/cat, > etc were owned by Administrators and not Administrator. Whatever. Hmmm, adding 'administrators' did fix the problem. As which user (uid) does cygwin run? The owner of the files in /bin is the 'administrators' group, and the owning group is 'Domain Users'. I presume cygwin is checking NT file system permissions for the owner and if this is denied it doesn't check to see if the current userid is a member of that owner (which is a group in this case), it's a little odd as if the owner does have NT file permissions to the files it does appear to perform that check. Rather than add administrators to the root file permissions for the drive (D: in my case), is there a major problem with changing the owner from the administrators group to the 'system' id and adding execute permission for the domain users group? i.e. from 500 to 510. I suppose this comes back to 'as which user does cygwin run?'. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/