Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/07/30/13:23:28
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:55:08AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Charles, did you check the permissions of the parent directory /tmp?
> > Is it possible that it still has permissions set so that it
> > propagatess them to files and subfolders?
> >
> > Could you repeat your test after calling
> >
> > chmod 700 /tmp
> > chmod 1777 /tmp
> >
> > ? The problem is mostly the already existing ACL. As I
> > wrote in my mail `NTSEC users: Please test' on this list:
> >
> > - `chmod 755' on a directory which already has 755 permissions.
> >
> > Will not work since `chmod' is so _clever_ to do nothing
> > if the requested permissions are the same as the current
> > permissions.
>
> Yes, that seems to be the problem w.r.t. the "cd /tmp, mkdir a,
> getfacl... tests" I was using. However, I've discovered that my entire
> build tree (/usr/src/{autoconf, etc}/...) also has the
> problematic-looking acl. So, I need to recursively chmod all around --
> but the subdirs are owned by various users, so a simple script won't do.
> Sigh.
>
> (I mention this because of the <autoconf-build-dir>/tests/1/2/ problem I
> reported earlier.)
>
> Anyway, after I finish cleaning up ACL's, I'll try the autoconf tests
> again -- maybe I too will then enjoy the VFORK bug... :-P
>
> --Chuck
>
> P.S. Anybody know a good way of programmatically removing ACE's for
> "Administrator" and "Administrators" from every file/dir in a tree,
> *without* using that stupid inheritance property?
find $your_tree | xargs setfacl -d u:500,g:544
Corinna
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