On 5/29/2017 22:49, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2017-05-29 12:37, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> On 5/29/2017 12:45, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> On 2017-05-29 11:16, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >>>> A simpler case demonstrating this; X0 is a new share (created just >>>> for testing this) with no prior history, nothing manually set. >>>> (Server is FreeNAS, current version). >>>> From the beginning, when it first sees it, it shows the file owners >>>> and groups weirdly. >>>> And then it's able to create a file and write to it *once*, but >>>> can't then append to it??? >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> $ id >>>> uid=197608(David Dyer-Bennet) gid=197121(None) >>>> groups=197121(None),197609(Ssh >>>> Users),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated >>>> Users),15(This Organization),113(Local account),66048(LOCAL),262154(NTLM >>>> Authentication),401408(Medium Mandatory Level) >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> $ ls -ld . >>>> drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Unknown+User Unix_Group+1001 0 May 29 11:55 . >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> $ getfacl . >>>> # file: . >>>> # owner: Unknown+User >>>> # group: Unix_Group+1001 >>>> user::rwx >>>> group::rwx >>>> other:r-x >>>> default:user::rwx >>>> default:group::rwx >>>> default:group:Unix_Group+1001:rwx >>>> default:mask:rwx >>>> default:other:r-x >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> $ echo something > foobar >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> $ ls -l foobar >>>> ----r--r-- 1 Unknown+User Unix_Group+1001 10 May 29 12:11 foobar >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> $ getfacl foobar >>>> # file: foobar >>>> # owner: Unknown+User >>>> # group: Unix_Group+1001 >>>> user::--- >>>> group::r-- >>>> other:r-- >>>> David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 //fsfs/x0 >>>> $ echo more >> foobar >>>> -bash: foobar: Permission denied >>> >>> See Cygwin User's Guide section on Switching the user context: >>> $ cygstart >>> /usr/share/doc/cygwin-2.8.0/html/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview >>> OR >>> $ cygstart https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview >> >> That appears to be instructions on how to temporarily, in code, act as >> another user. My problem is that when I create a Bash shell, it >> accesses network drives as the wrong user. It may be possible for me to >> write a version of Bash that switches to the right (default) user using >> that information, but why is it *necessary*? Local drives are accessed >> fine. > > That is the description of what Cygwin does to emulate a user context > for remote access to shares - you may want to set up and try methods 1, > 2, and 3 to see what works with your network shares.
It's never been necessary before; why is it suddenly necessary now? And, again, what it is describing is how to do that *temporarily in code*, not permanently at the command line. > First step may be to change or remap your userid to one not containing > spaces using /etc/passwd; see > https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.name-with-space > then > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-samba Instructions are bad, they refer (in 2.16) to a nonexistent windows management tool "GUI user manager". The actual tool, the "local users and groups" tool within "computer management", has no facility to change a username. -- David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> http://dd-b.net/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple