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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:38:00 -0400
To: "Bill C. Riemers" <cygwin AT docbill DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Tutorial on ACL's?
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At 11:09 AM 4/23/2004, you wrote:
>Is there a good tutorial for ACL's somewhere?  I find ACL's do not work they
>way I expect on NTFS.  Eventually directories which I use chmod and chown on
>become unusable for general actives.  For example, I regularly install
>applications on my e: drive.  However, because I have used chmod and chown
>to correct problems there before, the disk is now in a state where
>everything I install is owned by "docbill" and I'm the only one who can
>install applications.  Even then I regularly have to do something like
>chmod -R 775 /cygdrive/e during an install because directories are created
>with insufficient permission to install components.  I'm fairly certain this
>is related to the ACL settings...


You might have better luck tracking down a tutorial of sorts in a Windows
forum.


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