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Re: .netrc file


At 09:57 PM 10/25/2000, Newton Robinson wrote:
>I have installed cygwin on an NT 4.0 workstation.  I created a .netrc file
>to contain account information for other UNIX systems I need to transfer
>files between.  Ftp reports that other users have read access to the file
>and will not use the values.  I tried chmod 600 with no luck.  The file
>still has 644 permissions.  I used NT to remove everyone from the file.
>Still no luck.
>
>Is it possible to change the permissions of the file?
>
>Any other ideas?
>
>Newton


Assuming you're using NTFS partitions, set CYGWIN to ntsec.  See the 
mail archives and the user's guide for details 
(http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html)



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