On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On some recent installs of Cygwin (from a snapshot of a mirror site > about a week ago), we've started getting some odd problems. Re-running > setup pointing it at a fresh setup and mirror does not fix the problems > (naturally enough). > > A few key files in /etc (including /etc/profile!) have owner set to the > person who did the install (a system admin person), but mode 700. So one > obvious effect is that /etc/profile can't be read by anyone except the > installer, so PATH isn't set for ordinary users, so nothing works properly.
Luke, The problem occurs because the install is done by a Domain User and because the Windows default setting at your site is to give no permissions to Everyone (at least in /etc). There is a patch submitted to setup that is likely to fix this. To assess if the patch would be effective in your case, could you send the output of "getfacl /", "getfacl /bin" and "getfacl /etc" ? Additionally cygcheck reveals (the output of "id") UID: 11021(luke) GID: 10513(Domain groups=12919(adaytum) 10513(Domain Users) 13876(MS_VisualStudio) 13761(ZoneAlarm) that you are not a member of Users (or that Users is missing from /etc/group), which is unusual. If normal users are not in Users, the problem will persist even with the setup patch. "chmod -R a+rx /etc" is an effective answer. You could also change the group to Users (assuming users are in Users) and change the group permissions. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
