Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/09/02/01:50:12
No, it wasn't a mess of my own making. I did not ever touch
permissions, and it was a clean install. I don't know where these
permissions came from, but ls -l displayed something like that for
most files:
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 user group 0 2010-09-02 09:32 tests
This "+" sign after permissions string indicated non-cygwin
permissions which was impossible to remove using cygwin's chmod. And
since permissions are not inherited, it was not possible to mass
remove them using windows either. So, I just removed all permissions
and forced their inheritance. That solved all problems, until I
updated installation using setup.exe.
Believe me or not, but I really did not touch any permissions until I
noticed that strange behaviour. And I am the only administrator.
Machine is not a part of any domains. So, unless it's a kind of black
magic, there was (and maybe still is) some issue with permissions in
cygwin. That is why I don't want to use them.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On 2 September 2010 03:08, Vasya Pupkin wrote:
>> Because I prefer to keep things under control
>
> Oh $DEITY.
>
>> And I don't think it
>> will require a huge amount of work to disable working with permissions
>> in setup.exe with command line switch. I started to worry about it
>> because cygwin failed so much with permissions, having both
>> cygwin-specific and inherited ones (copied) at the same time,
>> resulting in complete mess.
>
> That appears to be a mess of your own making. Otherwise, concrete bug
> reports please. The OP's complaint here was that permissions aren't
> inherited, so I've got no idea what you're on about.
>
>> A non-privileged user could modify cygwin
>> configuration files in /etc and it was not possible to do something
>> about it.
>
> Well, I don't know what you did, but I install Cygwin as administrator
> and work as an ordinary user, and no, I can't modify anything in /etc.
> And that's no accident of course, because a lot of work has gone into
> mapping POSIX permissions to NTFS permissions in a sensible way.
>
> Andy
>
>
> ps: Please don't top-post. http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
>
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