[ANNOUNCEMENT] New release of setup.exe (2.249.2.10)

Pierre A. Humblet pierre.humblet@ieee.org
Tue Mar 18 05:24:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:44:12AM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> >
> Same machine as last time (same machine as every time, James).

I assume it's not the same as the very first time, when you wrote
"Most files seem to have no permission for "other"s. "

> previous 
> setup deleted, registry keys deleted, CYGWIN still unset, same steps 
> followed. Exception: setup.exe run under non-privileged domain user 
> account, left the "Install For" setting as proposed to "Just Me":
> - /etc/passwd contains all local users plus the domain user who ran setup,
> - /etc/group contains all local groups plus domain group 10513, 
> "mkgroup_l_d",

Good.

> - all files seem to have "kdall" (the domain user who ran setup) as owner 
> and "mkgroup_l_d" as group. Since I'm not sure what exactly you are 
> looking for, I have attached the ls -l output for /bin, /usr/bin and /etc,
> - testchown:

> -rwxrwxrwx    1 kdall    mkgroup_     8544 Dec 16 19:03 afmtodit

OK, things are fine again. Thanks for all the testing. 

I can see a potential for some bad combinations and will probably strengthen 
setup a little bit more.

Pierre

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