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Re: chmod/chown + ntsec doesn't work (was OpenSSH and RSA authentication problems)
Hi!
Friday, 05 October, 2001 Peter Buckley peter.buckley@cportcorp.com wrote:
PB> I saw one other post that said that you should
PB> make sure CYGWIN is set to "ntsec" but that doesn't
PB> necessarily mean that chmod or chown is going to work.
PB> I tried your example from a bash shell on my system,
PB> with CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec. Of course, chmod didn't
PB> work right. You can see from the following output that
PB> chmod worked in some cases, and chown definitely
PB> didn't work. I checked the FAQ, the archives, and the
PB> documentation, but there seem to only be suggestions
PB> to "set CYGWIN=ntsec" and "you can't use chmod on 95/98".
PB> This seems like the root of your SSH problem Dave, I just
PB> wish I knew why chmod didn't work.
chmod shouldn't work as you suppose it have to. try the same commands
on any unix. you'll get the same diagnostics.
PB> /home/pbuckley $ touch example_file
PB> /home/pbuckley $ ls -la example_file
PB> -rw-rw-rw- 1 pbuckley Domain U 0 Oct 5 08:47 example_file
PB> /home/pbuckley $ chown system.system example_file
PB> chown: changing ownership of `example_file': Permission denied
ordinary user can't change object ownership. this is the way the POSIX
works.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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