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Re: Permissions of files on a remote server
- To: "Shields, Daniel [EQTY]" <daniel dot shields at ssmb dot com>
- Subject: Re: Permissions of files on a remote server
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:03:58 -0500
- CC: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall at rfk dot com>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <414A46142DECD211A749002048403D260551D7D6@exchuk07.eu.ssmb.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
"Shields, Daniel [EQTY]" wrote:
>
> The partition is mounted from another NT box. What we found is that by
> adding the group 'Everyone' to the read and execute permission on the remote
> server the files now appear r-xr-xr-x.
>
> eg:
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 ds83392 Domain U 5 Jan 19 10:28 hat3
>
> Now when I 'touch' a new file it get r-xr-xr-x permission. However, I can
> neither change the permission or delete it! I can edit it in vim and use w!
> modify its contents.
>
> The directory in which I'm creating these files looks like:
>
> drwxrwxrwt 1 administ Domain U 16384 Jan 19 10:28 .
>
> so I'm thinking that there is some flaw in the way we've set up the
> groups...?
>
Does your local workstation contain a local user account of the same
user id as the domain name you log in with?
What is the value of your CYGWIN variable?
Cheers,
Earnie.
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