Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Odd permissions problem Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:33:59 -0700 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3D613A17.30401@Salira.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029781968 9744 206.184.204.2 (19 Aug 2002 18:32:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:32:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en This one has me stumped. Occasionally I get "permission denied" type problems when rsh'ing to a machine and creating or updating a file I would think I should be able to create or update. I don't understand why this happens. So I was playing around trying to categorize it: $ pwd /home/adefaria $ touch foo $ ls -l foo -rw-rw-r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Aug 19 10:47 foo $ rm foo OK, I can touch and create files. Note /home/defaria is actually on a server (i.e. I've mounted /// to /home). However if I try to do this through rsh $ rsh $(hostname) touch foo touch: creating `foo': Permission denied it fails. Now I am myself: $ rsh $(hostname) "id && touch file" uid=1370(adefaria) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),512(Domain Admins),513(Domain Users),1170(Everybody),1382(ITSupport),1354(Operations),1331(Software) touch: creating `foo': Permission denied Why is this? Looking over at the Windows security stuff I find 6 entries listed for my home directory: Administrators (Full Control), adefaria (Full Control), Domain Admins (Full Control), Domain Users (Modify), Everybody (Read & Execute) and SYSTEM (Full Control). If I add write permission to Everybody then this starts working. But why should I need to let Everybody write in my home directory in order to create files through rsh as me, especially when my own user, who I am when I rsh, has Full Control. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/