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Date:	Sun, 22 Dec 2019 15:34:27 +0300
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To:	Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Greetings, Eliot Moss!

>> For things outside Cygwin root, I strongly suggest "noacl" option.

>> Then you won't even need to chown or chmod, except in dire circumstances,
>> where some careless program forcibly set permissions to something like 0750.

> So how would I do that for a removable NTFS drive?

Even more reason not to use emulated POSIX permissions.

> It's not certain what drive letter it will pop up under.

Don't use drive letters, and you will reduce the vector of attack on your
system significantly.

> Of course the drive has a specific label, but I am not sure if/how that can be used ...
> getVolInfo can get it, of course, but this seems beyond the semantics of mount and fstab ...

Drive has specific network path, use it.

> I'm not saying I _need_ to do this; I got things going for now.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, December 22, 2019 15:32:57

Sorry for my terrible english...


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