X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:17:25 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Incorrect permissions on mount point when user does not have permission to access mounted directory Message-ID: <20091224111725.GC30006@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5ad9716ee2c6a1cd5e977ced71f35cd6@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5ad9716ee2c6a1cd5e977ced71f35cd6@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Dec 23 18:55, Chris January wrote: > Hello, > > I have drive I: mounted at /backup but the ACLs deny access to anyone not > in the Administrators group. I am in the Administrators group, but running > Windows 7 so I can only access the drive if I am running with elevated > privileges. If I run Cygwin without elevated privileges and type ls -l > /backup, Cygwin shows the following: > > $ ls -l /backup > -rw-r--r-- 1 Chris None 0 2006-12-01 00:00 /backup > > i.e. Cygwin incorrectly reports the mount point is a regular file and not > a directory. I can reproduce it. I'll see if I can come up with a patch for 1.7.2. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple