chmod failure (was: Attachment without nntp)

[Marc Girod <marc dot girod at gmail dot com>]

Hello,

Brian Dessent <brian <at> dessent.net> writes:

> http://pastebin.com/

First thanks to Will for following up (I very much agree with much 
of what you wrote), and thanks to Brian for this new suggestion.

So this is my cygcheck.out:

http://pastebin.com/m4c045ea9

This is on a differnt host than previously,
a laptop on which I installed Cygwin 'for all',
in which I have the CYGWIN environment variable set in the system environment
to use both ntsec and smbntsec,
with my same home directory from a network drive.
I have seeded the /etc/[passwd|group] files with the respective commands
and the -l -d options, with the following quirk:
my mkpasswd process has been running over the week-end, and I have been
refreshing passwd by taking copies of the current status, and adding a 
line for my own account.
Funny: the timestamp doesn't change, and marks the creation time of the 
file, although it has been updated recently.

Here is the symptom about which I hope to read an explanation:

~> ls -ld . .bashrc
drwx------+ 8 Administrators Domain Users   0 Feb 29 13:14 .
-rwx------+ 1 emagiro        Domain Users 118 Feb 29 13:14 .bashrc
~> chmod go+r .bashrc
chmod: changing permissions of `.bashrc': Permission denied
~> id
uid=654351(emagiro) gid=10545(Domain Users)
groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),552997(DATA-G-AdvancedCopper-R),
507088(DATA-G-AreaVisibileOL0-R),621351(DATA-G-ContractControl-R),
537205(DATA-G-Delivery2UK-R),578809(DATA-G-DFMapplication-R),
537126(DATA-G-DocumentiCEM-R),621450(DATA-G-Formazione-R),
621317(DATA-G-IndustrialEng-R),621462(DATA-G-Inventario-C),
537584(DATA-G-IOM Scanner-R),621308(DATA-G-LabStrumentiMSud-R),
543532(DATA-G-LegacyCCDB-R),621488(DATA-G-MaOPM-R),543162(DATA-G-Metrics-R),
647455(DATA-G-NPC Metriche-R),647192(DATA-G-NPCEngineering-R),
524937(DATA-G-NPIBuildPlan-R),
537114(DATA-G-OpticalDB-R),567649(DATA-G-OpticalNet-R),
621314(DATA-G-Pianif-AltreLinee-R),621354(DATA-G-PlanningControl-R),
638286(DATA-G-PubblicazioneEventi-R),621345(DATA-G-Rep_S52th-R),
621343(DATA-G-Rep_S54-R),490364(DATA-G-Segreteria Centro-R),
537289(DATA-G-Shuttle-R),543277(DATA-G-Sysprovhp-C),
647472(DATA-G-Vista Refresh-R),10513(Domain Users),108690(EEI-AC-trxusers),
156801(EEI-BHusers),149492(EEI-Users),545995(INACC-DEL-MANAGE-C),
12197(INACC-POINTSEC-R),156809(LMI-BHUsers),490152(TEAM-G-AreaWind-R),
490154(TEAM-G-Fastweb-R),552836(TEAM-G-FotonicaShared-C),
490385(TEAM-G-GIG-R),621402(TEAM-G-MAdepANR-R),
490194(TEAM-G-Vodafone&MUX NRO-R),10545(Domain Users)

(all on one line which I had to cut to <80 chars to make gmane happy).

I fail to get a passwordless ssh session to a unix host, and to start
http2--Bad system call, with a log of:
[Mon Mar 03 12:01:01 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr 159.107.167.27
[Mon Mar 03 12:01:01 2008] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy
[Mon Mar 03 12:01:02 2008] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys
(512/1024 bits)
[Mon Mar 03 12:01:02 2008] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH parameters
(512/1024 bits)


I guess these may relate to the first problem.
Thanks
Marc


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