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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:24:22 -0400
To: "David Monk" <david AT purplebear DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bash script permissions
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At 03:50 PM 9/12/2001, David Monk wrote:
>I am running the latest net realease on NT 4 and Win 2k. I am having a
>problem limiting, from cygwin, the permissions on a bash script so that only
>the owner can execute it.
>I finally after much fiddling figured out that with the shebang line in the
>script, cygwin immediately thinks it's executable by all. If I try any chmod
>affecting it's executable status, it's ignored. How can I work around this?


Set ntsec in your CYGWIN environment before starting any Cygwin app.


>Also, how can this be worked around on Win9x also, as it is planned to
>eventually distribute this script set.


You can't.  9x has no concept of security. 



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