Re: Permissions?

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

What's your system?!

WinNT 3.51, 4 or 5, Win95 or Win98?


---john_r_velman@mail.hac.com wrote:
>
>      
>      Can someone point me to an explanation of how Cygwin handles 
>      permissions, and -- specifically -- how I can get root
permission?
>      
>      I just ran a-foul of trying to configure a package where
configure 
>      tests to see if it can find the sources by testing for a
certain file 
>      to be readable.  It turned out that this particluar package had
a lot 
>      of permissions set to -rw-r-----.    Probably this is the case
in a 
>      number of directories as well as a lot of files in this
directory.
>      
>      I could try changing all permissions in all directories with
find, but 
>      it would be a lot cleaner to be able to do an su like I do on
my Linux 
>      box.
>      
>      And by the way, how does Cygwin know what the permisions are,
anyhow?  
>      It appears that this has little if anything I can find in
explorer 
>      file properties.
>      
>      Thanks,
>      
>      John Velman
>      jrvelman@mail.hac.com
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