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 Message-ID: <011201c2d225$d87c4180$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Brian Ford" , References: Subject: Re: multi-user file permission problems Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:32:30 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Brian Ford wrote: > Here is an example: > > ls -l /bin/make.exe > -rwx------+ 1 ford None 156160 May 11 2002 make.exe > > getfacl -a /bin/make.exe > # file: make.exe > # owner: ford > # group: None > user::rwx > group::--- > group:SYSTEM:rwx > group:Administrators:rwx > group:Users:r-x > mask:rwx > other:--- > > So, you can see that the unix permissions do not show read or execute > status for anyone but me. However, the ACL's show Users do have these > permissions. Yep. It's impossible to fully represent an ACL in traditional Unix permissions. > Trying to execute make in bash via PATH for other users results in > make not found. But, trying to execute /usr/bin/make works fine for > them. > > Can someone please help? Thanks. Options: - Disable ntsec - chown/chmod everything Future versions of setup will set the group to either Administrators or Users, which should allow more of the ACL to show in the mode bits. Max. -- 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/