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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:59:01 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Properly using ntsec, from the beginning
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In-Reply-To: <00ad01c13c58$48b40330$391e10ac@dmonknt>; from david@purplebear.net on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:30:41AM -0500

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:30:41AM -0500, David Monk wrote:
> How would one go about doing a fresh install on NTFS, whether it be NT or
> 2000, and use the ntsec option of CYGWIN properly, without having to
> immediately change file and directory permissions throughout?
> IOW, is there a proven method to install Cygwin and get a proper filesystem
> tree with permissions on text files, configuration files, and executable
> scripts set similar to a typical UNIX filesystem? And also have proper
> permission manipulation within cygwin.

Setup.exe is not ntsec aware currently and since NT doesn't support
setting POSIX permissions by default, the answer is no.

Corinna

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