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Re: 1.7 installation failed (on network drive?)


On Dec 17 14:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Has the H:\cygwin17 directory been created at all?  If so, we should
> examine the cacls for this dir just like the cacls for H:\ itself.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> [...time passes...]
> 
> Hang on, there's another possible reason for STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED.
> Mkdir_p calls NtCreateFile to create the directory with
> STANDARD_RIGHTS_ALL rights.  This includes WRITE_DAC and WRITE_OWNER
> rights.  Especially the last one could be a problem for a non-admin
> user.
> 
> Could you please try to replace STANDARD_RIGHTS_ALL with
> 
>   SYNCHRONIZE | WRITE_DAC | READ_CONTROL
> 
> If that works, we're done.  If that doesn't work, try
> 
>   SYNCHRONIZE | READ_CONTROL
> 
> If that works, you will see failure log output from SetPosixPerms().
> 
> Either way, this might be the entire problem here.  If the first
> expression works, we should be able to use it as is.  If only the
> second expression works, we have to do some admin/non-admin conditional.

Good news.  I can finally reproduce the problem.  Digging deeper now...


Corinna

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