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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:05:58 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bash script permissions
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:01:24PM -0500, David Monk wrote:
>> 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...
>>
>
>I would actually, considering my environment, love to switch to using the
>ntsec setting. But, how do I change over to the new setting without a whole
>ton of work? I have made so many additions to cygwin since original
>installation here.

chmod -R a-x /lib /etc
etc.
Leave the directories containing binary files alone.

You don't have to laboriously do a chmod for every file.

cgf

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