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Re: File permission problems with new cygwin dll
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:05:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: File permission problems with new cygwin dll
- References: <79218202D4B9D4118A290002A508E13B79C3A1@PNZEXCHANGE>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:09:31AM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
>I just upgraded to the new cygwin dll and gcc, and I seem to be running
>into some of the same problems reported by others. (Yes, I know ntsec
>is now enabled by default.)
>
>First problem: chmod doesn't work. Whenever I try to use it, I just get
>"chmod: changing permissions of `foo': Invalid argument".
As a guess, that would probably be an indication that your /etc/passwd
is out of sync with your Windows account. Rerunning mkpasswd may help.
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