A colleague at work is having some problems that are starting to look as though they're due to a permission problem.
I note that the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html says that Cygwin has no automatic uninstall facility. Since setup lets you choose to uninstall, is that an error in the FAQ, or have I misunderstood setup's uninstall option? Incidentally, neither setup uninstall nor manual removal worked, since the colleague (despite being local administrator for the machine), did not have permission to remove various files. The Cygwin install was done by a system administrator here; the uninstall was attempted by the privileged user (preparatory to a reinstall, BTW). I just wanted to report the FAQ oddity; I'll continue looking through the mailing list for info on the permission problem (his Cygwin version could be anything up to 6 months old, so I can't give much useful info). I've also been re-reading http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html, and I notice that both the examples 2-1 and 2-2 for /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and also the later section that describes the new scheme, refer to groups (like 513 - none, and 547 - powerusers or pwrusers) that don't seem to exist. Regards, luke -- 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/
