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 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:05:58 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bash script permissions Message-ID: <20010912170558.C25291@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <006d01c13bc4$2d570130$391e10ac@dmonknt> <20010912222501.M1285@cygbert.vinschen.de> <009801c13bca$78aab310$391e10ac@dmonknt> <20010912224924.N1285@cygbert.vinschen.de> <00cf01c13bce$154d6520$391e10ac@dmonknt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00cf01c13bce$154d6520$391e10ac@dmonknt> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:01:24PM -0500, David Monk wrote: >> Apparently you don't seem to understand the concept of NTFS security >> and _why_ it's set that way after switching ntsec on. Besides the >> Microsoft documentation read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html. >> Thinko: When Cygwin has been installed using no security settings at >> att, how are the default settings on the files... >> > >I would actually, considering my environment, love to switch to using the >ntsec setting. But, how do I change over to the new setting without a whole >ton of work? I have made so many additions to cygwin since original >installation here. chmod -R a-x /lib /etc etc. Leave the directories containing binary files alone. You don't have to laboriously do a chmod for every file. cgf -- 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/