Re: Cygwin Chmod

[Bob Proulx]

Tom Little wrote:
> 
> I tried to use the following command:
> chmod 600 .netrc
> but the file permissions did not change (-rw-r--r--)
> OS is NT2000.

Does NT even have the concept of users?  Ports of the utilities can
only do as much as the underlying OS allows.

> I checked all the file settings, etc.  to make sure i had read/write/modify
> permission.  I could remove/add write permissions (e.g. -r--r--r--), but
> could not eliminate the read permissions for groups and others.
> 
> Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

Hmm...  We are not the right group to say.  Please check with the
Cygwin folks.  They are the experts.

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Bob