Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/20/05:17:07
On Sep 20 18:10, luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au wrote:
> I looked into a problem reported today, that ~/.profile is not executed
> if you use Cygwin to create your home directory, instead of using
> Windows Explorer to create the directory.
>
> The user who reported it and I played around for a while, with getfacl
> and setfacl to try to find the difference and fix them. While setfacl
> doesn't seem to allow you to do everything you need (specifically, you
> can't use it to delete the default group ACL for ~ since you have to
> specify a group, but there is no group for the default group), ACLs may
> not be the full explanation anyway.
get/setfacl are not designed to manipulate the ACLs in a WIndows way,
but in a Unixy way. Keep in mind that you always have a primary
group and always primary group permission bits in the POSIX permissions.
You can't delete them, just set them to --- if you like. To get rid of
the primary group ACE entirely, either use NT tools (cacls) or change
the primary group for the file first.
> We managed to set the two directories to appear to have identical ACLs
> according to the Advanced security tab in the Windows Explorer
> properties - but that still didn't help!
>
> Cygwin will only run ~/.profile if "~" was created via Win Explorer.
> (This seems to be reasonably new behaviour - we've got a lot of users
> who would have been affected every day, if this had been true for a
> long time.)
Sorry but this is bogus. There's no difference whether a directory is
created using Cygwin or Windows.
bash gets its idea of where the home directory is from the setting of
$HOME. When starting up `bash --login' locally, then the Cygwin DLL
constructs $HOME using the following rule:
- If $HOME is present in the environment, convert it to a POSIX path
and use it.
- Otherwise, if the user has an /etc/passwd entry and this entry contains
a non-empty pw_dir field, use this as $HOME.
- Otherwise, if $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH are set in the Windows environment
(they usually are), use them to create a POSIXy $HOME from them.
- Otherwise use "/" as $HOME.
Does that help?
Corinna
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