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, 19 Aug 2005 16:11:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Christopher Benson-Manica cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Permissions, again In-Reply-To: <20050819194352.GA28538@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> Message-ID: References: <20050819194352.GA28538@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: > So I'm using smbntsec as the security setting, and it worked like a > charm. I've still got a problem, though - the files I create are > losing the "inherit permissions" attribute, and I don't know how to > get that attribute back without using the XP file dialog window. Can > I get chmod (or some other program) to save the day for me? Cygwin maps POSIX permissions to Windows ACLs. In particular, one decision that was made was to replace the ACLs instead of appending to them, to better reflect the POSIX permission model. chmod, and other POSIX programs know nothing about ACLs (which is where inheritance is specified). You should, however, be able to use "getfacl/setfacl" to do what you want. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/