Cygwin gurus,
Frustrated by permission problems resulting from having two accounts
with the same user name (one domain, one local) I decided to start over
with my cygwin installation. This time, I logged in as local
administrator (account name say [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and installed cygwin as
this user. Then, to make sure I could read and use cygwin from my
domain account I used the Windows ACLs to also grant my domain account
"Full Control" to all the files in C:\cygwin. Thus, both my [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(local admin) and my [EMAIL PROTECTED] (domain admin) have Full Control to
files in C:\cygwin. But, while logged in both as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried from Windows Explorer to delete a file and was
informed that I do not have permission! So, I launched the cygwin bash
window (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and performed a chmod 777 on the file (which
cygwin allowed) and STILL can't delete the file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin
$ ls -la rsync.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 senior Users 245248 Aug 18 03:56 rsync.exe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin
$ rm -f rsync.exe
rm: cannot remove `rsync.exe': Permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin
$
I have read the documentation on NTSEC and from my limited understanding
of it was able to glean that using the Windows ACLs was probably not the
right way to grant access to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account. What is the best
way to allow access of cygwin to *all* administrators and can I repair
this permissions on this installation? Thanks again.
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My CYGWIN environment variable is set to "CYGWIN binmode ntsec tty title
server" and the /etc/passwd file follows.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin
$ less /etc/passwd
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-LOCAL\Administrator,S-1-5-21-4847
63869-1563985344-682003330-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-LOCAL\Guest,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985344
-682003330-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash
HelpAssistant:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:Remote Desktop Help
Assistant Accoun
t,U-LOCAL\HelpAssistant,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985344-682003330-1000:/home/Hel
pAssistant:/bin/bash
admin:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-LOCAL\admin,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985
344-682003330-1003:/home/admin:/bin/bash
sshd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1020:513:sshd
privsep,U-LOCAL\sshd,S-1-5-21-48476386
9-1563985344-682003330-1020:/var/empty:/bin/bash
SUPPORT_388945a0:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:CN=Microsoft
Corporation,L=Redmon
d,S=Washington,C=US,U-LOCAL\SUPPORT_388945a0,S-1-5-21-484763869-1563985344-682
003330-1002:/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash
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