Re: Permission bits

2003-02-27 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:21:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:23:07PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they > >map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't. > >Can somebody

Re: Permission bits

2003-02-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I have experienced similar symptoms on SAMBA drives. Try comparing the output of "id" with the numbers in the "ls -ln" output. I have a feeling either your /etc/passwd is not up to date on your work machine (i.e., you forgot to do "mkpasswd -d -u adefaria >> /etc/passwd

Re: Permission bits

2003-02-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:23:07PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they >map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't. >Can somebody explain to me the following: > >On my Windows XP box at home I can easily ma

Re: Permission bits

2003-02-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they > map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't. > Can somebody explain to me the following: > > On my Windows XP box at home I can easily manipulate permissio