Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Problems with CPAN Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:31:19 +0200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3D47BC77.9090405@upb.de> References: <31CB870AD5AA384BB5419025DD9F7A84104355 AT dailymail DOT cfs DOT ac DOT uk> <31CB870AD5AA384BB5419025DD9F7A8410435A AT dailymail DOT cfs DOT ac DOT uk> <20020731114049 DOT D3921 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pd953ce14.dip.t-dialin.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028111438 18971 217.83.206.20 (31 Jul 2002 10:30:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 X-Accept-Language: de, en >>Nooooo. It's way easier. If an application uses stat() and >>checks the uid against the posix permission bits, it fails >>since your uid is definitely not the uid of the admins group. >> >> > > In what sense are you using the phrase 'way easier' in the first > sentence? The rest of your stuff goes right over the head of this > part of the target audience! in fact is was easier: - the perl script checked the permission - what went wrong since NT ACLs are much more complicated than unix RWX-stuff - bash does not use any test - it just opens/runs the file to check if it has access. but: shouldn't there be a better conversion of NT-ACLs to unix-perms? perhaps a POSIX-ACL implementation? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/