Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:03:33 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: 1.7 - noacl for cygdrive
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:35:04AM -0700, Rob Bosch wrote:
>> Rob, many thanks for your reply.
>> So it's not just me having massive problems with the NT permissions which
>are
>> being messed up by Cygwin tools like rsync. Actually most Cygwin users
>should
>> see these problems, I guess, because Windows 2000 and XP use NTFS.
>> I can't use rsync anymore, because the permissions of the destination are
>all wrong after rsync resets them... Oh what a pity!
>
>Rsync will work fine with 1.5.25.  Just set the global NTSEC (see
>http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html).  You have to set this
>variable in your system environment so that any process spawned gets it,
>especially if you are running rsync as a service.  If you are scripting it,
>add it in your cmd file.  

ntsec is the *default* and has been for some time.  There is no reason to set
it.

cgf

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