From: jsturm AT sigma6 DOT com (Jeff Sturm)
Subject: Re: NT extended attributes
16 Oct 1998 10:00:04 -0700
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>
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Yes, I *think* chown works, I'll verify tomorrow... under NT "change
ownership" is one of the rights that can be granted on a file, so any
user can generally assign ownership of his own files... right?

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> Jeff Sturm wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone explain how NTFS security maps to the cygwin32 POSIX-ish
> > user/group/other file permissions?  I've tried to set up a
> > somewhat-secure login environment on NT.  Working as administrator, I
> > can create folders and set their ownership through cygwin32 (chown
> > works).  So the folder looks like
> 
> Very interesting, chown works?
> If, as administrator, I do a
>         chown anyuser anyfile
> I get a
>         Permission denied
> 
> If, as administrator, I do a
>         chown administrator anyfile
> I get no error but nothing has happened.
> 
> Corinna
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