Permissions?

[john_r_velman@mail.hac.com]

Woops!  I meant to include this:

My system is NT4 SP3, NTFS file system

Thanks,

John Velman
jrvelman@mail.hac.com


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Subject: Re: Permissions?
Author:  earnie_boyd@yahoo.com at mime
Date:    9/23/98 9:47 AM


What's your system?!
     
WinNT 3.51, 4 or 5, Win95 or Win98?
     
     
---john_r_velman@mail.hac.com wrote: 
>
>
>      Can someone point me to an explanation of how Cygwin handles 
>      permissions, and -- specifically -- how I can get root 
permission?
>
>      I just ran a-foul of trying to configure a package where 
configure
>      tests to see if it can find the sources by testing for a 
certain file
>      to be readable.  It turned out that this particluar package had 
a lot
>      of permissions set to -rw-r-----.    Probably this is the case 
in a
>      number of directories as well as a lot of files in this 
directory.
>
>      I could try changing all permissions in all directories with 
find, but
>      it would be a lot cleaner to be able to do an su like I do on 
my Linux
>      box.
>
>      And by the way, how does Cygwin know what the permisions are, 
anyhow?
>      It appears that this has little if anything I can find in 
explorer
>      file properties.
>
>      Thanks,
>
>      John Velman
>      jrvelman@mail.hac.com
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