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: <008601c17fb9$33111780$1fc7b3d1@HUNG> From: "Gene C. Ruzicka" To: "Eric M. Monsler" , References: <008b01c17ed7$24338870$7ec6b3d1@HUNG> <3C10479E.2069FF1B@beamreachnetworks.com> Subject: Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere? Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:23:13 -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: "Eric M. Monsler" To: "Gene C. Ruzicka" Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:37 PM Subject: Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere? > "Gene C. Ruzicka" wrote: > > > > my pc uses windows 2000 professional, and my cygwin folder is > > C:\cygwin . i've been looking into giving co-workers access to > > the cygwin setup on my pc, but i've noticed something strange: > > it seems that the default security setup allows EVERYONE full > > access to the cygwin folder and all subfolders. > > Under NT4.0 SP6, when you share a drive onto the network, the default > seems to be to allow everyone full access. Not cygwin related. hmmmm.... i've got lots of software installed on the drive, but i only have this problem with cygwin. i'm simply going to change the security settings to something more appropriately manually. i've already done most of that task. gene -- 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/