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Re: chmod/chown + ntsec doesn't work (was OpenSSH and RSA authentication problems)


Ummm.... Egor, what are you talking about? 
Have you tried the same commands on "any 
flavor of unix"? 

Chmod DOES work as I suppose it to. I tried 
the same commands, on SunOs 5.7, and they worked 
just fine. No errors, and I got the expected results. 

/home/pbuckley $touch example_file
/home/pbuckley $ls -la example_file
-rw-r--r--   1 pbuckley ccase          0 Oct  5 09:57 example_file
/home/pbuckley $chmod 777 example_file 
/home/pbuckley $ls -la example_file
-rwxrwxrwx   1 pbuckley ccase          0 Oct  5 09:57 example_file

And about chown- I am an administrator on my NT machine. And 
I have changed ownership before, when I was setting 
up SSH according to Mike Erdely's instructions. 

It is just now that I am trying this example that chown 
doesn't work- and I have done an upgrade (last month?)
to cygwin 1.3.3 *after* I knew chown was working when 
I setup SSH and chown-ed files to system.system. 

So my question is still unanswered- why doesn't 
chmod/chown + ntsec work anymore?

TIA,
Peter


egor duda wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Friday, 05 October, 2001 Peter Buckley peter.buckley@cportcorp.com wrote:
> 
> PB> I saw one other post that said that you should
> PB> make sure CYGWIN is set to "ntsec" but that doesn't
> PB> necessarily mean that chmod or chown is going to work.
> 
> PB> I tried your example from a bash shell on my system,
> PB> with CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec. Of course, chmod didn't
> PB> work right. You can see from the following output that
> PB> chmod worked in some cases, and chown definitely
> PB> didn't work. I checked the FAQ, the archives, and the
> PB> documentation, but there seem to only be suggestions
> PB> to "set CYGWIN=ntsec" and "you can't use chmod on 95/98".
> 
> PB> This seems like the root of your SSH problem Dave, I just
> PB> wish I knew why chmod didn't work.
> 
> chmod shouldn't work as you suppose it have to. try the same commands
> on any unix. you'll get the same diagnostics.
> 
> PB> /home/pbuckley $ touch example_file
> PB> /home/pbuckley $ ls -la example_file
> PB> -rw-rw-rw-    1 pbuckley Domain U        0 Oct  5 08:47 example_file
> PB> /home/pbuckley $ chown system.system example_file
> PB> chown: changing ownership of `example_file': Permission denied
> 
> ordinary user can't change object ownership. this is the way the POSIX
> works.
> 
> Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
> 
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