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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 22:17:08 +0200 (MEST)
From: Dimiter Kurtev <dkurtev@gmx.at>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
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Subject: correct file permissions for default setup with ntsec
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hi!

of course, this may have been asked a billion times, but i havent found an
answer.
so:
i would like to have the permissions on my cygwin filesystem set to whatever
they should be in a "real" unix evironment.  setup seems to create
everything with 777 or 666 even if running ntsec.  this is, of course, because the
permissions in the tgz files are not set properly.  what is the reason for this?
 would this mess up a win9x system?  could one not check for ntsec,
blablabla.
i have seen a script which changes most permissions to root.root 644, but is
that enough?  of course, every time i update a package those might get
overwritten, and new files will be 777 anyway.
so
1) why dont the packages have permissions?
2) what should i set them to, if i were to write a script (of course, i
could check some bsd or linux box - would that do the trick?)

thanks,
dk.

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