Win 2K Permission issues

Larry Hall cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Sat Feb 7 00:48:00 GMT 2004


At 01:38 PM 2/6/2004, Steve you wrote:
>Hi;
>
>I'm on win2K.
>
>I made myself a bash script to back up some vital files on my hard drive.  The script first consolidates a bunch of files from all over my hard drive to one location.
>
>I created logging with my script.  The log has a LOT of "permission denied" error statements.
>
>Eventhough I signed in as myself("steve"), installed cygwin as myself, and ran the script as myself the directories that are getting created by the backup script are getting created as user "Admin".
>
>Is there anyway around this?
>
>Thanks in advance


I'm going to direct you as well to:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


You have to realize that without proper methods and detailed error-reporting,
folks on the list can only wager guesses as to what's wrong when receiving
reports like this.  To the extent possible, we like to limit "garbage in, 
garbage out" threads.  Read the above link and see if you can help us help
you.



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