On Jul 3 13:25, Steven Hartland wrote: > Running chmod under 2008 simply doesnt seem to work here, > which is really strange. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/: id > uid=500(root) gid=513(None) > groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(testuser) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp: touch test > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp: chown testuser test > chown: changing ownership of `test': Permission denied > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp: ls -l test > -rw-r--r-- 1 root None 0 Jul 3 13:15 test > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp: grep testuser /etc/passwd > testuser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:Test > User,U-BLADE0\testuser,S-1-5-21-1034854827-3221323542-428946914-1002:/usr/home/testuser:/bin/bash > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/: grep testuser /etc/group > testuser:S-1-5-32-545:545:
Huh? Why did you do that? This is the entry for the Users group. It doesn't seem to make sense to rename it for Cygwin. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/: ls -l |grep tmp > drwxrwxrwt+ 3 Administrators None 4096 Jul 3 13:22 tmp > > All this works fine on XP and 2003 but is there something silly > I'm missing for 2008? Works fine for me on 2008 so I assume some local setting which disallows this. Did you remove the "Back up privileg and directories" privilege from the admin's account, by any chance? You could run this under strace and see what Win32 error message you get. It could be helpful. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
