Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <000901c28d04$8983ff70$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , "Francis Litterio" References: Subject: Re: Question about umask and CYGWIN=ntsec Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 00:10:13 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Francis Litterio wrote: > I'm using Cygwin 1.3.12-4 with CYGWIN=ntsec on an NTFS filesystem, > and I have my umask set to 177, but when I create a new file with > "touch foo", the permissions on the file are "rwxr-xr-x". > > Is there any way to use "ntsec" and not have all newly created files > appear with execute permissions? This suggests that ntsec isn't actually on. ntsec must be in $CYGWIN *before the cygwin-using process starts* It is best, therefore, to set it in My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables. Also, note that ntsec is on by default in current versions of Cygwin. Max. -- 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/