Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/28/01:05:40
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:21:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:23:07PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they
> >map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't.
> >Can somebody explain to me the following:
> >
> >On my Windows XP box at home I can easily manipulate permissions:
> >
> >[Home XP]: touch file
> >[Home XP]: ls -l file
> >-rw-rw-r-- 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file
> >[Home XP]: chmod 777 file
> >[Home XP]: ls -l file
> >-rwxrwxrwx 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file*
> >
> >However on my work XP box:
> >
> >[Work XP]: touch file
> >[Work XP]: ls -l file
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file
> >[Work XP]: chmod 777 file
> >[Work XP]: ls -l file
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file
> >
> >Now I'm wondering why I can chmod here?!? The only difference that I see
> >is that at home my home directory is simply on my C drive and I'm not in
> >a domain while at work my home directory is mapped from a server to my H
> >drive. I know that this oddity is happening because Windows permissions
> >are not equal to Posix permissions and I've tried everything I know how
> >to do to get Windows to allow me to open up the permissions from a Posix
> >perspective. Anybody know how I could get it so that a chmod 666 file
> >will actually yield me a rw-rw-rw mask?
>
> ntsec only works on NTFS drives.
and smbntsec turns it on on network drives.
Pierre
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