Post-Install Scripts: chmod 755 /var doesn't work

[Thrall, Bryan]

K.C. Lee wrote on Monday, April 27, 2009 6:57 AM:
> I'm trying to make a unattended installation of cygwin including
openssh
> server. 
> 
> For some reason I have to excute the following 2 lines and I write
> them into some /etc/postinstall/xxx.sh and compress it as .tar.bz2
> file
> chmod +r /etc/passwd
> chmod +r /etc/group
> 
> But this didn't work.

I assume you're using Cygwin 1.5, in which case try setting CYGWIN=ntsec
(Cygwin Setup sets it to nontsec by default; see
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html for what these
settings mean):

export CYGWIN=ntsec
chmod +r /etc/passwd
chmod +r /etc/group

-- 
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com

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