John Smith wrote:
Well, actually, I take that back. Today I'm still having the same
issue. :frustrated:
Can't say I immediately know the answer to your prob, BUT,
if you have a spare computer you could run samba as a domain server
for windows.
Then you can set your group and see a bunc
On 1/10/2014 7:57 AM, John Smith wrote:
the None user group won't allow me to change group permissions. When
rsyncing with a remote server, I mirror permissions from that server
Wanting to change file permissions with rsync (or any other command) to
something you don't have the right to do is
Well, actually, I take that back. Today I'm still having the same
issue. :frustrated:
If I ever figure it out I'll let you know. Maybe it's just Sublime Text
that is the issue and I'll just have to use something else.
On 1/8/2014 12:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 8 12:07, John Smi
Hi there,
I wanted to say thanks again for the help. With your advice I was able
to track it down -- well, the most annoying parts, anyway. I had an
editor I was using that did not have all the same permissions assigned
to it as say, Notepad or Wordpad. The net effect is that it was somehow
On Jan 8 12:07, John Smith wrote:
> >That's not how it works for me, even with Notepad. It only changes
> >the file content, not the ownership.
>
> If you create a file outside of cygwin, you should see it as a group
> of none, correct? Then if you update that file's group using cygwin
> to "ch
Hi there,
Yes, of course. Changing the primary group via /etc/passwd only
works for Cygwin processes and their child processes. It does not
change the default user token of all processes. How should that
work, especially since the OS itself doesn't allow to change the
primary group of local u
On Jan 8 10:34, John Smith wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> First, thanks for the detailed reply!!
>
> >>I've been struggling with an issue trying to figure out why Windows
> >>8.1 won't seem to respect the trick of setting your /etc/password to
> >>use a default group such as users instead of 'none'. Th
Hi there,
First, thanks for the detailed reply!!
I've been struggling with an issue trying to figure out why Windows
8.1 won't seem to respect the trick of setting your /etc/password to
use a default group such as users instead of 'none'. There are a
few other discussions on this board around
On Jan 8 01:18, John Smith wrote:
> Hi there,
> I've been struggling with an issue trying to figure out why Windows
> 8.1 won't seem to respect the trick of setting your /etc/password to
> use a default group such as users instead of 'none'. There are a
> few other discussions on this board aroun
Hi there,
I've been struggling with an issue trying to figure out why Windows 8.1
won't seem to respect the trick of setting your /etc/password to use a
default group such as users instead of 'none'. There are a few other
discussions on this board around changing the group to "Users" and
modi
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