Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:43:57 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) From: Joachim Achtzehnter To: Subject: cp uses NT5 permissions on NT4 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII With cygwin 1.1.6 (and also 1.1.5) under some circumstances the cp program from GNU fileutils 3.16 creates files and directories with NT5 permission attributes that cannot be read by NT4. In the case at hand I was copying a tree from a remote shared drive to a local disk using a command like this: cp -Rf M:/ACE_wrappers/5_1-1_1/docs/* d:/release On the M: drive the Security/Permissions tab shows two entries like this: Domain Admins Full Control (All) (All) Domain Users Change (RWXD) (RWXD) and my user is a Domain User, hence I can read the source files of the cp command. After the copy command returns the destination files and directories on the D: drive cannot be accessed by me. When opening a file with notepad I get "Access Denied". Looking at the Security/Permissions tab for one of the new files I get an error like this: The security information for D:\release\CE-status.txt is not standard and cannot be displayed. Windows NT 3.x and 4.x support certain features such as Deny Access Control Entries but cannot edit security information which uses these features. The information may have been modified by a computer running Windows NT 5.0, which supports these features and can edit information which uses them. We don't have any NT5 systems at all, only NT4. Joachim -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com