Corinna, thanks you very much! the "notraverse" keyword did the trick.
I don't really understand what do you mean by "it checks the permissions of the parent directory"... As long as I can "traverse" with windows acls in the windows world (and it is presently the case) I should be able to do the same with cygwin semantics, right? On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:54:00 +0100, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 4 10:29, Fran?ois-David Collin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I upgraded from 1.5.12 to 1.5.13, and it seems that with a non-admin > > account, I can't "cd" anymore : any cygwin programs trying to access > > something from the "/" got a Permission denied error. > > 1.5.13 has changed to using "traverse checking" by default which means, > it now checks not only the permissions of the files and directories > the application is accessing, but also the permissions of the parent > directories (well, as far as Windows is doing the "right thing"(tm)). > > If you can't set POSIX-compatible permissions on your directory tree > for some reason, try setting the environment variable CYGWIN to > contain the word "notraverse". > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com > Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > 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/ > > -- François-David Collin Équipe Réseau Institut Curie Section de Recherche -- 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/