Latest update problems (ntsec and file permissions, I think)

["William A. Hoffman" <billlist at nycap dot rr dot com>]

What is the official story on the latest updates of cygwin? 
I recently upgraded (a year or so old version of cygwin), and 
after the upgrade, very little worked. I had trouble 
with users and file permissions. A co-worker at my company, 
did a fresh install, and had the same type of problems. 
All the files created had no permissions and a user that 
cygwin did not know about. gcc produced .exe files that could 
not be run.

After looking at the mailing list for a while I was able to figure 
out that this has something to do with the new ntsec defaults. 
I also had to do this by hand:

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:23:25PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: 
>That fixed all of my problems! "mkpasswd -du mywindowslogin > 
>/etc/passwd", and then gcc started producing programs that were 
>executable again.

Once I did that, things were better. Is this a problem that is going 
to be fixes, or are people supposed to know that they have to run 
mkpasswd -du after running setup? BTW, I also tried setting CYGWIN to 
nontsec, but this had no effect on the problem.

If a new user were to try cygwin right now, I think they would be a bit 
confused.

-Bill


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