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RE: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache
- To: "'John Fortin'" <fortinj at attglobal dot net>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache
- From: John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:09:22 -0500
> John Wiersba wrote:
> >
> > 2) The id and ls commands work strangely for me:
> > > id
> > uid=500(administrator) gid=100(everyone) groups=100(everyone)
> > > rm -f FILE; touch FILE; ls -l FILE
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 jrw JRW 0 Mar 24 15:55 FILE
> > > cd /c
> > > rm -f FILE; touch FILE; ls -l FILE
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 winnt Everyone 0 Mar 24 15:57 FILE
> > > cat /etc/passwd
> > WinNT::0:513:::
> > Administrator::500:513:::
> > Guest::501:513:::
> > jrw::544:544:::/bin/ksh
> > > cat /etc/group
> > Everyone::0:
> > JRW::513:
> > I've lived with this "feature" for a long time, but maybe
> > it's related to
> > this problem?
> >
> From: John Fortin [mailto:fortinj@attglobal.net]
>
> Could this be the old "I'm part of the Administrator group"
> so the Administrator
> User owns all files, not me syndrome?
>
> Create a new user id which does not have Adminstrator
> Priveledges and try
> building again.
OK, how do I tell which group I'm part of? The groups command says
"everyone". I didn't set up my machine (our computer services group did).
I don't think I can set up a new user id.
But notice that files created by me on c: (a FAT drive) are owned by
winnt/everyone whereas files created by me on d; (an NTFS drive) are owned
by jrw/JRW.
-- John
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