On Apr 5 14:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 5 05:19, Karl M wrote: > > > > + ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > > > > -rw-rw---- 1 Administrators root 1675 Apr 4 11:30 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > > > > > > > > This test was on a fresh (1.7.12) from this morning. > > > > > > There's your problem: The Administrators group and the root group > > > are just two different Cygwin group names for the same Windows group > > > with SID S-1-5-32-544. So, the above POSIX permissions are a result > > > of the SID S-1.5.32.544 having rw- permissions. > > > > > > Apart from that, the owner of the /etc/ssh* files should be cyg_server, > > > not the admins group. > > > > > I name my cyg_server user root. > > But your root group is the same as the Administrators group. Look into > the file's ACL. > > > But my testcase was demonstrating that chmod thought it changed the > > file permissions but had no effect when performed in a script. While > > when performed interactively at the bash command prompt, chmod worked > > fine. > > It works still fine for me if I don't use the same Windows group as > owner and as group of the file.
Btw., there were no changes at all between 1.7.10 and 1.7.12 which would even remotely touch chmod or chown behaviour on files. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple