chmod/chown + ntsec doesn't work (was OpenSSH and RSA authentication problems)

[Peter Buckley]

Ummm.... Egor, what are you talking about? 
Have you tried the same commands on "any 
flavor of unix"? 

Chmod DOES work as I suppose it to. I tried 
the same commands, on SunOs 5.7, and they worked 
just fine. No errors, and I got the expected results. 

/home/pbuckley $touch example_file
/home/pbuckley $ls -la example_file
-rw-r--r--   1 pbuckley ccase          0 Oct  5 09:57 example_file
/home/pbuckley $chmod 777 example_file 
/home/pbuckley $ls -la example_file
-rwxrwxrwx   1 pbuckley ccase          0 Oct  5 09:57 example_file

And about chown- I am an administrator on my NT machine. And 
I have changed ownership before, when I was setting 
up SSH according to Mike Erdely's instructions. 

It is just now that I am trying this example that chown 
doesn't work- and I have done an upgrade (last month?)
to cygwin 1.3.3 *after* I knew chown was working when 
I setup SSH and chown-ed files to system.system. 

So my question is still unanswered- why doesn't 
chmod/chown + ntsec work anymore?

TIA,
Peter


egor duda wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Friday, 05 October, 2001 Peter Buckley peter.buckley@cportcorp.com wrote:
> 
> PB> I saw one other post that said that you should
> PB> make sure CYGWIN is set to "ntsec" but that doesn't
> PB> necessarily mean that chmod or chown is going to work.
> 
> PB> I tried your example from a bash shell on my system,
> PB> with CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec. Of course, chmod didn't
> PB> work right. You can see from the following output that
> PB> chmod worked in some cases, and chown definitely
> PB> didn't work. I checked the FAQ, the archives, and the
> PB> documentation, but there seem to only be suggestions
> PB> to "set CYGWIN=ntsec" and "you can't use chmod on 95/98".
> 
> PB> This seems like the root of your SSH problem Dave, I just
> PB> wish I knew why chmod didn't work.
> 
> chmod shouldn't work as you suppose it have to. try the same commands
> on any unix. you'll get the same diagnostics.
> 
> PB> /home/pbuckley $ touch example_file
> PB> /home/pbuckley $ ls -la example_file
> PB> -rw-rw-rw-    1 pbuckley Domain U        0 Oct  5 08:47 example_file
> PB> /home/pbuckley $ chown system.system example_file
> PB> chown: changing ownership of `example_file': Permission denied
> 
> ordinary user can't change object ownership. this is the way the POSIX
> works.
> 
> Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
> 
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