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 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:04:39 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Permission bits Message-ID: <20030228060439.GA48294687@hpn5170x> Mail-Followup-To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3E5E9DDB.8000103@Salira.com> <20030228022129.GA22164@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030228022129.GA22164@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:21:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:23:07PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they > >map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't. > >Can somebody explain to me the following: > > > >On my Windows XP box at home I can easily manipulate permissions: > > > >[Home XP]: touch file > >[Home XP]: ls -l file > >-rw-rw-r-- 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file > >[Home XP]: chmod 777 file > >[Home XP]: ls -l file > >-rwxrwxrwx 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file* > > > >However on my work XP box: > > > >[Work XP]: touch file > >[Work XP]: ls -l file > >-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file > >[Work XP]: chmod 777 file > >[Work XP]: ls -l file > >-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file > > > >Now I'm wondering why I can chmod here?!? The only difference that I see > >is that at home my home directory is simply on my C drive and I'm not in > >a domain while at work my home directory is mapped from a server to my H > >drive. I know that this oddity is happening because Windows permissions > >are not equal to Posix permissions and I've tried everything I know how > >to do to get Windows to allow me to open up the permissions from a Posix > >perspective. Anybody know how I could get it so that a chmod 666 file > >will actually yield me a rw-rw-rw mask? > > ntsec only works on NTFS drives. and smbntsec turns it on on network drives. Pierre -- 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/