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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:49:24 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Bash script permissions
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In-Reply-To: <009801c13bca$78aab310$391e10ac@dmonknt>; from david@purplebear.net on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:35:33PM -0500

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:35:33PM -0500, 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.

Apparently you don't seem to understand the concept of NTFS security
and _why_ it's set that way after switching ntsec on. Besides the
Microsoft documentation read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html.
Thinko:  When Cygwin has been installed using no security settings at
att, how are the default settings on the files...

> Maybe Cygwin won't be able to be a supported platform after all.

It could depend on the developer of the application, too, not only
on the developer of the underlying system...

Corinna

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