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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Permission bits Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:23:07 -0800 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3E5E9DDB.8000103@Salira.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't. Can somebody explain to me the following: On my Windows XP box at home I can easily manipulate permissions: [Home XP]: touch file [Home XP]: ls -l file -rw-rw-r-- 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file [Home XP]: chmod 777 file [Home XP]: ls -l file -rwxrwxrwx 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file* However on my work XP box: [Work XP]: touch file [Work XP]: ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file [Work XP]: chmod 777 file [Work XP]: ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file Now I'm wondering why I can chmod here?!? The only difference that I see is that at home my home directory is simply on my C drive and I'm not in a domain while at work my home directory is mapped from a server to my H drive. I know that this oddity is happening because Windows permissions are not equal to Posix permissions and I've tried everything I know how to do to get Windows to allow me to open up the permissions from a Posix perspective. Anybody know how I could get it so that a chmod 666 file will actually yield me a rw-rw-rw mask? -- 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/