Setting cygwin for the first time (newbie) question with CYGWIN=n tsec

Setting cygwin for the first time (newbie) question with CYGWIN=n tsec

[Tim Michals]

All,

Installed cygwin from the net today, and set in the include file
CYGWIN=ntsec, ran mkpasswd -l -g > passwd and mkgroup -l > group in the /etc
directory.

The issue, still cannot create directories.  for example in
/home/Administrator perform the following commands:

Administrator@T~
$ mkdir eCOS
mkdir: cannot create directory `eCOS': Permission denied

Administrator@T ~
$ ls -lag
total 1
drwsrwsrwt    2 1125     None            0 Jan  3 14:16 .
drwx------    3 1125     None            0 Jan  3 14:09 ..
-rwx------    1 1125     None          272 Jan  3 14:19 .bash_history


and when using vi get this message 

E303: Unable to open swap file for "group", recovery impossible
"group" 12 lines, 428 characters
Hit ENTER or type command to continue


What is wrong?

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Re: Setting cygwin for the first time (newbie) question with CYGWIN=n tsec

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:30 PM 1/3/2002, Tim Michals wrote:
>Installed cygwin from the net today, and set in the include file

                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                           What does this mean??

>CYGWIN=ntsec, ran mkpasswd -l -g > passwd and mkgroup -l > group in the /etc
>directory.


Is ntsec set before any Cygwin process starts (i.e. bash?).  Check out
the FAQ and user's guide regarding permission problems and ntsec.  If
that information doesn't help, you'll want to inspect your system
configuration via 'cygcheck -s -r -v'.  Send it to the list if careful
inspection doesn't suggest some problems to you.


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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