Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Debbie Tropiano
Larry - On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:30:38PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Understood. From what you described, there wasn't anything obviously > wrong with the install process used. There's a chance that the installation > media itself is bad somehow, though I do think it's pretty remote th

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Debbie Tropiano wrote: Larry - On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:15:38PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/28/2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and then install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator on many of th

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Debbie Tropiano
Larry - On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:15:38PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/28/2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: > >It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and then > >install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator on many > >of the critical file f

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread René Berber
Debbie Tropiano wrote: [snip] > It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and > then install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator > on many of the critical file folders. We did not receive an uninstall > executable to undo the damage, so all we can do i

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/28/2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and then install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator on many of the critical file folders. We did not receive an uninstall executable to undo the damage, so all we can do

Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Debbie Tropiano
Hello - We have Cygwin installed on several XP systems which we've done via a CD built from the download (the installed systems are on a private network and thus cannot be loaded from the internet). However on the latest install we noted a problem. It was reported to me that "If you install Windo