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Re: system account files mystery
No, that didn't occur to me - and it seems to work. How does the permission
system work?!
Thank you very much for the info.
Dennis
Andrew Louie wrote:
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> dsacks <dennis <at> calico-consulting.com> writes:
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>> wait, if I try to vi /etc/sshd_config now I cannot write it, because it
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>> owned by SYSTEM and has restrictive rights.
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>> How do I edit system files now? I don't really grok the permission world
>> in
>> cygwin and how unixy permissions and users map to windows.
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> Did you try chown your_user_id /etc/sshd_config ? to change the ownership
> to you
> so you can edit it?
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