Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010912164605.02ff7958@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:47:10 -0400 To: "David Monk" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Bash script permissions In-Reply-To: <009801c13bca$78aab310$391e10ac@dmonknt> References: <006d01c13bc4$2d570130$391e10ac@dmonknt> <20010912222501.M1285@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:35 PM 9/12/2001, David Monk wrote: > > On NT use CYGWIN=ntsec to use the NTFS ACLs, on 9x forget about it. > > Where there's no security at all... > >There are problems with this approach. When I set ntsec in the CYGWIN >environment variable, everything is now marked as executable. And I DO mean >everything. It would be a nightmare to manually go through and change >permissions on everything. Did you have a snapshot DLL on your system at any time? That might explain what you see. The behavior you describe is not typical. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/