Re: chmod permission denied on windows 2008

["Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay dot co dot uk>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corinna Vinschen"
> > [root@blade0]/: grep testuser /etc/group
> > testuser:S-1-5-32-545:545:
>
> Huh?  Why did you do that?  This is the entry for the Users group.
> It doesn't seem to make sense to rename it for Cygwin.

Purely for compatibility reasons and has worked fine on XP & 2003
for years, so I dont think this is an issue.

> > All this works fine on XP and 2003 but is there something silly
> > I'm missing for 2008?
>
> Works fine for me on 2008 so I assume some local setting which
> disallows this.  Did you remove the "Back up privileg and directories"
> privilege from the admin's account, by any chance?

Clean 2008 RTM install, very minimal changes.

> You could run this under strace and see what Win32 error message
> you get.  It could be helpful.

Below is the full strace of this, but I think the issue lies where
you suggested looking at:-
[log]
 716   22555 [main] chown 2524 seterrno_from_win_error: /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.5.25-15/winsup/cygwin/sec_helper.cc:422 
windows error 1300
 104   22659 [main] chown 2524 geterrno_from_win_error: unknown windows error 1300, setting errno to 13
  95   22754 [main] chown 2524 __set_errno: void seterrno_from_win_error(const char*, int, DWORD):310 val 13
  94   22848 [main] chown 2524 set_privilege: -1 = set_privilege ((token 138) SeRestorePrivilege, 1)
2513   25361 [main] chown 2524 seterrno_from_win_error: /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.5.25-15/winsup/cygwin/sec_helper.cc:422 
windows error 1300
  93   25454 [main] chown 2524 geterrno_from_win_error: unknown windows error 1300, setting errno to 13
  82   25536 [main] chown 2524 __set_errno: void seterrno_from_win_error(const char*, int, DWORD):310 val 13
 103   25639 [main] chown 2524 set_privilege: -1 = set_privilege ((token 138) SeBackupPrivilege, 1)
 103   25742 [main] chown 2524 set_privilege: 1 = set_privilege ((token 138) SeChangeNotifyPrivilege, 1)
[/log]


Hope this gets through the lists broken spam detection, and helps id the issue.

   Regards
   Steve

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