Greetings, Michael Enright! > I have a few files that I want to compile and run in a new Windows 10 setup. > I setup cygwin64 and copied the files to a subdirectory of my home directory. > I noticed that my prompt indicated that my home directory was > "/home/Mike Enright". I decided that in the long run that would be > bad. > So I followed a tip from Stack Overflow [1]to use /etc/passwd to fix > this. Apparently the idea is to map the Windows SID to my desired user > name "menright"
I would actually suggest renaming the system user, if possible. > instead of "\"Mike Enright\"". > And also rename the created home directory accordingly. > So now I have /home/menright and some files under there and > /etc/password contains a line that maps an SID to menright. > Due to a problem out of scope of this list Eclipse launches notepad > when I want to edit CMakeLists.txt. Then Notepad says "You do not have > permission to open this file" > I noticed "ls -l CMakeLists.txt" gets: > ----rwx---+ 1 menright Mike Enright 0 Oct 21 15:02 CMakeLists.txt > It's really odd that the user permissions are zero. the "+" says that there's extended ACL present. So, nothing odd. > So I want notepad to have permission to open this file on my behalf. > Oddly I made a file called "me" with touch and I was able to edit that > with notepad. > I would also ask any advice. I fear that this permissions issue is due > to some underlying issue that I need to nip in the bud before I get > too much work done. If you plan to mix Cygwin and system $HOME directories, make sure you mount them with "noacl" flag in Cygwin. Then permissions management will be deferred to Windows. > I think I'd also like to have my personal group "Mike Enright" renamed > to "menright" just to be sane. > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19613654/rename-change-cygwin-username As any system administrator would tell you, user names with spaces, so is with non-ASCII characters, are bad for system health. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, October 22, 2018 1:34:18 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
