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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:47:10 -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 04:35 PM 9/12/2001, David Monk wrote:
> > On NT use CYGWIN=ntsec to use the NTFS ACLs, on 9x forget about it.
> > Where there's no security at all...
>
>There are problems with this approach. When I set ntsec in the CYGWIN
>environment variable, everything is now marked as executable. And I DO mean
>everything. It would be a nightmare to manually go through and change
>permissions on everything.


Did you have a snapshot DLL on your system at any time?  That might explain
what you see.  The behavior you describe is not typical.


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