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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Jason Lunz <lunz AT falooley DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Spurious executable bits keep turning up
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Jason Lunz wrote:

> ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk said:
> > Sorry if this is an FAQ, I've searched the archives but found nothing.
> >
> > I run under XP, CYGWIN=tty ntsec.
> >
> > Files produced by a range of mechanisms (at least FileOutputStream in
> > Java, xemacs, MS Word) show up as executable (-rwxrwxrwx), which is
> > somewhere between distracting, irritating and a real problem.  What am
> > I doing wrong?
>
> I'm having the same problem. An ssh private key unpacked by nsis
> (http://nsis.sf.net) under XP has 0777 permissions, meaning that a
> cygwin-compiled ssh.exe refuses to use it. But this works under win2k.
> Is there any workaround for this?
>
> Jason

Other than the obvious "chmod 600", you mean?
Well, you could try "mount -E", but that would be like using cannon on
pidgeons...  You could also turn off inheritable permissions on c:\cygwin
(by going to "Properties->Security->Advanced" and unchecking the box -- at
least on Win2k).  There's really not much else you can do...
	Igor
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