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From: Karl M <karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Setup 1.7 2.621
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:48:26 -0700
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Hi All...
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I just experimented with 2.621 this morning.
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For years, I have used a script to do a full recursive permissions and owne=
r fixup and reset the mount points after running setup for Cygwin 1.5, so I=
 like the new Setup capabilities.
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On an XP Pro machine, with a Cygwin-1.7 only installed, I shut down all cyg=
win processes, renamed C:\Cygwin to C:\Cygwin-prev, created C:\Cygwin, disa=
bled permission inheritence for C:\Cygwin, and set C:\Cygwin to have full f=
ull access from SYSTEM and Administrators. Then I ran setup to install.

After the install, ownership in /bin was administrator.Administrators, as e=
xpected. But several items "/home" for example had ownership of administrat=
or.root. "/dev/*" had the same issue, for example. Then lots of items in /e=
tc had administrator.none. root is my cygserver account, used in the previo=
us Cygwin 1.7 installation.
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I then deleted four user IDs named, named2, named3, and named4, from previo=
us ISC BIND (native Windows) on this machine. I shut down all Cygwin proces=
ses and deleted the C:\Cygwin folder.
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I then created C:\Cygwin and set the permissions again as above, and ran se=
tup again. This time I had administrator.Administrators where I previously =
had administrator.root. I did notice that my /etc/group file had each group=
 listed twice (each group listed once, followed by each group listed once).
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I'm not sure how to reproduce the administrator.root results of the first i=
nstall. It seems that items created by the installation scripts should foll=
ow the ownership convention set by setup.
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Thanks,
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...Karl
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