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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:11:44 -0400
From: "Zieg, Mark" <mark DOT zieg AT lmco DOT com>
Subject: RE: chmod in cygwin shell
To: "'Mario Ohnewald'" <mario DOT ohnewald AT gmx DOT de>,
   "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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> I cant set the x bit to my files. I am the user who installed cygwin and
who
> dowloaded thee files which i want
> to make executeable now.

This almost certainly isn't the right long-term solution, but if you just
want a quick fix, you might try this:

  ziegm $ touch newfile

  ziegm $ ls -la newfile
  -rw-r--r--    1 ziegm    None            0 Sep 24 10:04 newfile

  ziegm $ cacls newfile /E /G Everyone:F
  processed file: C:\cygwin\home\ziegm\newfile

  ziegm $ ls -la newfile
  -rwxrwxrwx    1 ziegm    None            0 Sep 24 10:04 newfile

cacls ("Change ACLs") is WinNT/2k's analog to chmod (it's not a direct
mapping, but they're similar).

Anyway, I found it when having the same "chmod +x" problem on my system.  My
problem went away when I learned to do the "mkpasswd -u ziegm -d mydomain >>
/etc/passwd" setup step.


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