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Strange issue with permissions and VIM
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 Strange issue with permissions and VIM - Apr. 13, '06, 3:54:07 AM
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caledfwlch
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I am having some very odd issues with VIM and file permissions.
I am running on Windows XP (but the same problems show up on Windows 2003) as a non-Administrator account but a member of the +Administrators group.
All of the files in the SFU directory are owned by the user with a group of either +Administrators or +SYSTEM (I can't work out why there is a mix).
Running VIM with syntax enabled didn't result in any highlighting. Thinking I'd forgotted something else I did a ':help'.
This produced an error message saying that /usr/local/share/vim/vim63/doc/help.txt didn't exist.
I checked - it does exist.
Curious, I tried to load the file directly and succeeded.
I have also noticed that autocompletion of filenames on the VIM command line doesn't work, nor does the TreeExplorer.
This problem does not seem to affect normal commands, e.g. ls and cd.
As a further point of interest, when trying to remove a directory with 'rm -rf' some files and directories couldn't be deleted. However, I could change the owner of these files and then remove them. The files were created by a Windows process running as a service.
Hmm, on a hunch, I just chown'd the entire VIM directory and subdirectories to the *same* user as the current owner and now everything is working again!
Can anyone explain what is happening?
Thank you,
Dave.
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RE: Strange issue with permissions and VIM - Apr. 13, '06, 10:37:07 AM
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woehlkmp
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quote:
All of the files in the SFU directory are owned by the user with a group of either +Administrators or +SYSTEM (I can't work out why there is a mix).
If by "the SFU directory", you mean '/', I can guess at the "why"... it looks like folders that were originally created by the installer are group='+Administrators', whereas anything created by 'mkdir' is group='+SYSTEM'. At least that's what seems to have happened on my computer (where 'mkdir' does create dirs with group='+SYSTEM').
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Can anyone explain what is happening?
It certainly sounds like problem with permissions... do you know what the old permission set and owner/group were? My guess would be something funny about the permissions on some folder, unless your VIM happens to be setuid.
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RE: Strange issue with permissions and VIM - Apr. 13, '06, 10:06:03 PM
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Rodney
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> So, on a somewhat related note, should I be worried that any new diretories I make in '/' (and oddly, only '/') show up with group='+SYSTEM'?
"/" is special. It doesn't exist in the same sense as "/" on other systems.
On other systems "/" really is the top of the disk tree. With Interix it can
be located anywhere. So it's somewhat virtual. There used to be many virtual
directories (Interix 2.2) but it was switched to have on-disk data backing
them up (i.e. character special files for the terminals). "/" is the one of
the last still special (/net & /proc are the others).
However, that all stated those that are +SYSTEM as group really should have
been +Administrators. Not causing harm per se; the MSI install should have
had it different; you can change it.
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