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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:25:01 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Bash script permissions
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In-Reply-To:	<006d01c13bc4$2d570130$391e10ac@dmonknt>; from david@purplebear.net on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:50:30PM -0500

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:50:30PM -0500, David Monk wrote:
> I am running the latest net realease on NT 4 and Win 2k. I am having a
> problem limiting, from cygwin, the permissions on a bash script so that only
> the owner can execute it.
> I finally after much fiddling figured out that with the shebang line in the
> script, cygwin immediately thinks it's executable by all. If I try any chmod
> affecting it's executable status, it's ignored. How can I work around this?
> Also, how can this be worked around on Win9x also, as it is planned to
> eventually distribute this script set.

On NT use CYGWIN=ntsec to use the NTFS ACLs, on 9x forget about it.
Where there's no security at all...

Corinna

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