Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/04/08:23:45
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:25:43AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Seth Rubin wrote:
> > Myself (and Jason) are thinking there's an issue with the cygwin
> > setup. Maybe I'm being naive, but all this seems is an issue with
> > chmod and/or copy not being done properly on the postgres.exe file
> > during installation. I don't see where ACL's or ntsec enters into
> > it.
>
> Here's how:
> Cygwin setup *doesn't* chmod anything at all. Hence, the file
> permissions end up being set by normal Windows inheritance. Now,
> interpret that through ntsec, and you end up with mode 700 - on your
> particular system. Setup does try to help things to turn out right, by
> setting the group to Users, on the grounds that most systems will
> grant Users at least Read&Execute, and most users will be in group
> Users. That apparently doesn't hold true on your setup, hence your
> problems.
Is there any way to solve this problem without me adding a postinstall
script that performs a "chmod +rx" on all *.exe and *.dll files
installed by this packages?
Thanks,
Jason
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