X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Fwd: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:49:50 -0400 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 2010-09-01 04:00, Harie Ram wrote: > The issue that I am currently facing is : the modify permissions given > to the INSTALLDIR "C:\Cygwin" using the msi lock permission table is > being inherited through all the subfolders and files. Any new manually > created folders and files anywhere within C:\Cygwin via Windows > explorer or via the Cygwin Bash Shell are inheriting permissions. But > any new installations done by the user by choosing a package from the > Cygwin list are not inheriting the permissions. The installed user who > installs the package has full permissions to delete/modify the folder > and its contents . But the local admin/administrator/system does not > have permissions. It gives an access denied error. These 3 user groups > administrators/system/users are not even being listed in the security > properties of those installed folders. AFAIK, Cygwin uses POSIX style file permissions, which do not support any type of inherited file permissions. -- 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