Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <000901c17f12$e59942d0$5c2af4d8@HUNG> From: "Gene C. Ruzicka" To: "Collin Grady" , References: <008b01c17ed7$24338870$7ec6b3d1@HUNG> <002701c17edc$f8a74060$4a49689e@MagusLaptop> Subject: Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere? Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 03:32:47 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Collin Grady" To: "Gene C. Ruzicka" ; Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:06 PM Subject: Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere? > Just a thought, but try setting the CYGWIN environment variable to > contain ntsec, that should make it follow NT security settings, if I'm not > mistaken. > Hope this helps, but this only perpetuates the problem i'm trying to solve. you see, access by everyone, everywhere IS the NT (actually Windows 2000) security setting; but i want to change that, not have cygwin ratify it. btw, i did set ntsec, and not surprisingly, it didn't change things at all. my sense is that for user foo, i'm going to have to create a directory C/cygwin/home/foo, and assign the user full access to this directory, and read/execute access to other pertinent cygwin files. then, setting cygwin = ntsec would make cygwin follow these settings--i hope. -- 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/