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RE: File permission problems with new cygwin dll
- From: "Rolf Campbell" <rcampbell at tropicnetworks dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:23:25 -0400
- Subject: RE: File permission problems with new cygwin dll
That fixed all of my problems! "mkpasswd -du mywindowslogin >
/etc/passwd", and then gcc started producing programs that were
executable again.
-Rolf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:05 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: File permission problems with new cygwin dll
>
>
> 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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