X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Barry Kelly To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Everyone group permissions and Vista "shared files" (*not* shared folders) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:01:39 +0000 Message-ID: References: <5e4cc4153gf115hcpi4ilk2s787klg6sra@4ax.com> <20080929165252.GC11053@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080930163346.GK11053@calimero.vinschen.de> <20415300.post@talk.nabble.com> <20081110115230.GA2884@calimero.vinschen.de> <7j5ih4pea29aj7pnmn186b8uitoeboetkb@4ax.com> <4919B55D.10606@cygwin.com> <491C8DF5.2070301@cygwin.com> <20081114094657.GE19442@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20081114094657.GE19442@calimero.vinschen.de> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1117 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id mAEH2dZa024822 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > If that's not feasible, switch off ntsec and you get standard Windows > permissions. If the standard Windows permissions are not as you need > them, don't rely on Cygwin's chown/chmod. rather change the inheritence > settings of the parent directory according to your needs. Then you get > the required permissions right from the start. Nothing against using > chown/chmod in some border cases, Berry, but in your situation they are > just a workaround for bad permission settings. I guess I will just have to reimplement chown and chmod, it seems. PS: I don't know what it is that makes some people get my name wrong, but there you go. -- Barry -- http://barrkel.blogspot.com/ -- 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/