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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "James Shaw" <qumqam AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <20021015042109 DOT 99682 DOT qmail AT web13601 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Suddenly, all file have executable attribute bits set!
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:17:47 +0100
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James Shaw wrote:
> I've been happily using and programming under Cygwin
> for a couple of months.  I suddenly noticed today
> that a bug has creeped up in my installation.
>
> I'm writing here in the hopes that something is
> configured wrong / Windows is misbehaving.  And
> that it can therefore be fixed.
>
> The bug is that all files show up as executable!

This is because "ntsec" is now on by default, and Windows gives execute
permission to everything that has read permission in its default ACLs.
Either set CYGWIN=nontsec, or read up about ntsec in the Cygwin User Guide.

Max.


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