Re: File permission problem

[Peter Rehley <peter@rehley.net>]

This sound suspiciously like the files are on a FAT32 file partition.  
Are they?

On Sep 23, 2004, at 8:32 PM, <jackylam@solomon-systech.com> wrote:

>
> Yes. But I have already export the environment variable "ntsec" and
> restart cygwin. But chmod still doesn't work. Do I need to run any
> server in order to activate the change?
>
> Jacky
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Friday, 24 September, 2004 10:52
> To: Jacky Lam; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: File permission problem
>
> At 09:59 PM 9/23/2004, you wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>>    I have try to generate a private key file so that I don't need
>> to enter password everytime I "ssh" to a remote machine. However, 
>> "ssh"
>> complaints me about the permission of key file. I don't know why
> "chmod"
>> always return 666 or 444 even I want to change the file to 600 or 400.
>>
>>    Does anymore have idea? Thanks.
>
>
> Does this describe your situation?
>
> Why doesn't chmod work?
> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC41>
>
>
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