X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <491DB13F.1050002@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:11:27 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc8 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Everyone group permissions and Vista "shared files" (*not* shared folders) 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Barry Kelly wrote: > 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. Perhaps you're better off with the available tools for ACLs? Just a thought. > PS: I don't know what it is that makes some people get my name wrong, > but there you go. Don't let it get you down Berry. -- Lerry ;-) -- 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/