X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Steve Holden Subject: Re: Setting cygwin permissions from Windows programs Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:32:51 +0000 Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <43A80BC9.2060908@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: <43A80BC9.2060908@cygwin.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >> I am writing a Python program to generate file trees to be distributed >> to a Linus machine using Cygwin's scp. As the GUI to this program uses >> wxPython, a native Windows approach is the most straightforward. >> >> Is there any way to set permissions on the output files from the >> Windows side that will result in predictable permissions when the >> output tree is viewed from Cygwin? >> >> A Python recipe would be useful, but I'll take what I can get! > > > Have you checked what the permissions on a file you created by Windows > looks > like under Cygwin and seen some problem? If so, please post the details > and > perhaps someone can help. Otherwise, I'd suggest just doing the above and > working with the result unless you see problems. In general, unless you've > done something to restrict access in Windows, Cygwin can see and interact > with "natively created" files just fine. > Holger Krull wrote: > Cygwin doesn't have an own management of permissions. So any program > that modifies permission in Windows will be able to change permissions > for cygwin files. cacls and xcacls are command line tools from windows. > Don't know how this would be usually done in python. > Thanks for the responses. The issue is that I'd like the files to appear in Cygwin with permissions of -rwxr--r--, or -rwxr-xr-x for executables and directories. I'm trying to avoid having to use Cygwin utilities to assert Cygwin permissions, but I am unable to determine the Windows permissions I must assert when creating the files in order for Cygwin to see those permissions. Currently a newly created file appears as: -rwx------ 1 sholden None 13834 Dec 20 14:26 index.html This is under Win XP. Are the Cygwin and Windows permissions different universes that don't interact? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- 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/