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From:	"Fish" <fish AT infidels DOT org>
To:	"Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RESOLVED (?): Cygwin permissions problem
Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:19:11 -0700
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(Ref: original "Cygwin permissions problem" and related threads)

FYI: I managed to resolve my issue by completely re-installing Cygwin
from scratch after having added (and allowing to propagate) the
"Everyone" group (Read and Execute only) to my set of permissions
[for all of my partitions].

What I find odd(?) about this whole episode is that the "Everyone"
group should apparently be required [by Cygwin] like that. Could
someone explain that to me?

The reason I personally find it to be somewhat "odd" is simply
because my Windows system behaves perfectly (just fine) without it.

Now I know that Cygwin (i.e. *nix) is NOT Windows and vice versa, but
why does Cygwin (*nix?) apparently choke whenever none of the (its?)
files are given any type of "public" access? (Which is what the
"Everyone" group is for, yes?)

It seems to me one *should* be able to do what I was doing (i.e. only
assigning explicit "private" (i.e. no public) permissions/access to
all of my files/folders) without any serious side effects, but
apparently not.

Could some kind soul out there help me to understand why *SOME* type
of "public" permissions set is [apparently] required by Cygwin?
(*nix?)

Thanks.

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