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 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:19:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Gabe Rosenhouse cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Inheriting parent ACLs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20040923210113 DOT GP12802 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Gabe Rosenhouse wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:21:17 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: , now with more reasons. > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Sep 23 16:45, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Gabe Rosenhouse wrote: > > > > > Is there a global setting to cause every file and directory created in > > > > > Cygwin to simply inherit the Windows ACL of its parent directory? > > > > > > > > No. > > > > > > You meant "nontsec", right? > > > > I guess -- you're the expert. :-) > > > > I also meant to point the OP to > > so he could see all the > > implications of "ntsec" (and would have shown my glaring mistake above), > > but there doesn't seem to be any info there about "nontsec" and its use of > > Windows permission inheritance (I know, I know, PTC). > > Igor > > > > sorry if I'm misunderstanding this, but are you saying that ntsec => > NTFS-like ACL inheritance? Actually the opposite. Adding "nontsec" to your CYGWIN environment variable (see the first link in the above URL) will do that. Using "ntsec" will simulate POSIX permissions using the NT ACLs, and will not use inheritance. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/