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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:47:34 +0200
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Subject:	File permissions cygwin install
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Hi,

I'm a cygwin rookie and can't get I clear clue (after googling) as to why
after installing cygwin on WinXP I have these permissions:

$ ls -al /cygdrive/c/cygwin/
total 9
drwxrwx---+ 11 administrator  Users     0 Jul  4 13:52 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 11 Administrators SYSTEM    0 Jul 15 11:10 ..
-rwxr-x---+  1 administrator  Users    57 Jul  3 11:46 Cygwin.bat
-rwxr-x---+  1 administrator  Users  7022 Jul  3 11:46 Cygwin.ico
drwxrwx---+  2 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:45 bin
drwxrwx---+  2 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:44 cygdrive
drwxrwx---+  2 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:44 dev
drwxrwx---+ 15 administrator  Users     0 Jul  4 13:57 etc
drwxrwxrwx+  3 Administrator  Users     0 Jul  4 13:52 home
drwxr-x---+ 20 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:44 lib
drwxrwxrwt+  2 administrator  Users     0 Jul 15 16:00 tmp
drwxrwx---+ 17 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:44 usr
drwxrwx---+  9 administrator  Users     0 Jul  4 13:21 var


I don't beleieve it is supposed to be this way? I.e. it seems odd to give
users write access in all kind of system directories?

regards,
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