RE: NT security and cygwin

["Tolkin, Steve" <Steve.Tolkin@fmr.com>]

Thanks for the reply.
I now say
export CYGWIN="ntsec ntea tty notitle"
in my .bashrc, but this does not seem to change anything.
P.S.  I am not sure what those other values are for -- I am just a monkey
copying things I have read.

I am running Cygwin 1.1.0 and I read somewhere that ntsec was supposed to be

on by default in that release.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [ mailto:corinna@vinschen.de ]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:09 PM
> To: Tolkin, Steve
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: NT security and cygwin
> 
> 
> "Tolkin, Steve" wrote:
> > 
> > What prompted this was discovering that I could not delete 
> files from /temp
> > and also that rcs ci was failing (see next email).
> > The answer to this first problem was that I needed to chmod 
> +w /temp first.
> > 
> > But I do not understand how cygwin interacts with NT security.
> > 
> > I found some discussion of NT security in the mail archives at
> > www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi specifically the item
> > 3913FB8B.77A8647@vinschen.de
> > "NT security and the ntsec usage"
> > 
> > Is this on the web anywhere?  Is it not available from
> > www.vinschen.de
> > 
> > It is only "Chapter 2. Setting up Cygwin".  But is the rest 
> of the Cygwin
> > User;s guide avaiable somewhere?
> > 
> > Q0. The /temp directory was created a long time ago.  When 
> I first looked
> > using ls -ld it had
> > permissions dr-xr-xr-x  Is this standard for directories 
> created in DOS?
> > What other directories
> > might not be writable, that I should change now?
> > 
> > Q1. In NT I am am member of a domain and my USERNAME is SY71046.
> > Why isn't that used in cygwin?
> > I ran mkpasswd -d and saw 900 users in my domain -- but not me!
> > Is this part of the problem?
> > 
> > Q2. Why does id report administrator with a lowercase a but 
> passwd has one
> > with an upper case A?
> > 
> > 504~> id
> > uid=500(administrator) gid=544(Administrators) 
> groups=544(Administrators)
> > 
> > Q3. I'd rather than new files be created by my id than 
> administartor.
> > How can I achieve that?
> > 527/etc> touch foo
> > 528/etc> ls -l foo
> > -rw-rw-rw-   1 administ Administ        0 Jun  1 11:05 foo
> > 
> > Here is my /etc/passwd, slightly sanitized
> > Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> > SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> > Administrator::500:544:,S-1-5-....-500::/bin/sh
> > Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-....-501::/bin/sh
> > stolkin::1000:544:Steven Tolkin,S-1-5-21-...-1000::/bin/sh
> > VUSR_BOSA454958::1001:513:VSA Server 
> Account,S-1-5-21-....-1001::/bin/sh
> > 
> > Note that I changed the group number for administrator, and 
> for stolkin.
> > They were originally emited by mkpasswd -l as value 513, 
> meaning none.
> 
> All what you want is possible when adding `ntsec' to the
> env.var CYGWIN. The documentation for ntsec is currently
> only in the sources but I have posted it as html in
> this mailing list a few weeks ago. Search the archive.
> 
> Corinna
> 
> -- 
> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Developer
> Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
> 

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