permission problems with Azure

Hans-Bernhard Bröker hbbroeker@gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 16:41:28 GMT 2025


Am 05.08.2025 um 15:27 schrieb ben-xD via via Cygwin:
>    As soon as I launch Cygwin, I see
>
>    -bash: /usr/bin/hostname: Permission denied
>
>    |find| fails:
>
>    $ /usr/bin/find
>    bash: /usr/bin/find: Permission denied

This would appear to be due to M$'s latest bout of paranoia, which in 
some system configurations has them silently sabotage any program that 
has the same name as one of Windows' own utilities. So "find" or 
"hostname" will be blocked while, say. "ls" or "xargs" are not.




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