At 04:27 PM 7/12/2005, you wrote: >On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > >> At 10:20 AM 7/12/2005, you wrote: >> >On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote: >> > >> >> > So, except for the pdksh postinstall (which is a genuine bug), >> >> > everything else seems to be related to the weird permissions on your >> >> > machine. >> >> >> >> Could it be related to the strange fact that my numeric user id >> >> suddenly has changed from 400 to 121833? >> > >> >I'm not sure. >> >> >> Well, this simple fact would not change file permissions from something >> to 000. However, if you're permissions previously were not POSIX but >> only ACLs and those ACLs didn't include your domain user, then you may >> have somehow been able to create files with POSIX permissions 000 and >> still been able to access them mostly before your "new" UID appeared. >> That's a pretty far-fetched conjecture on my part so I wouldn't give it >> too much credence. But, the point I want to make is that running >> mkpasswd/mkgroup isn't going to change file permissions. > >Larry, I suspect "ls -l" showed files with permissions ----------+, which >Ron interpreted as 000 without noticing the ACL flag.
Yes, I suspect this as well. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
