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From: "Karl M" <karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Bash: when is WinXP not WinXP??
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:27:02 -0700
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Hi All...

If you bring XP Home up is safe mode, you can use the GUI to edit the ACLs.

You may also want to take a look at SETACL on SourceForge. (It has a ton of 
options...don't leave home without the documentation.)

Thanks,

...Karl

>From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: To: Subject: Re: Bash: when is WinXP not 
>WinXP??
>Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:06:30 +0200
>
>On Oct 12 17:42, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > Daniel Miller wrote:
> > > I've already had *one* problem to solve under Home, for some reason
> > > Executable flags are not set on files that I copy over the network; I
> > > didn't even know Windows *had* executable flags, but I'd copy console
> > > utilities which worked fine under XPPro (in both Bash and 4NT), but 
>when I
> > > copied them to XPHome and tried to run them, I'd get "access denied".  
>I
> > > ran 'chmod 777' on these files and they all worked fine after that.
> >
> > One of the things that MS removed from XP in creating the Home version
> > was the ability to modify file ACLs.  The "security" properties tab that
> > is normally used is absent.  I don't know if Windows uses some set of
> > default/immutable ACLs under-the-hood, or if they simply removed the
> > ability to query and set them from the front-end but left the underlying
> > ACL machinery.  I suspect the latter.  In that case, when you copy files
>
>You're right.  Under the hood it's a normal kernel and a normal NTFS.
>Just the UI is crippled.  From the Cygwin perspective XP home and XP pro
>is the same system.
>
> > via native windows methods, who knows what the ACL gets set to, since
> > that version of Windows ostensibly does not support that feature at
> > all.  Apparently since chmod and getfacl/setfacl still work then the low
>
>AFAIR cacls is available also on XP home.  But setfacl/getfacl are working
>fine, too, if POSIX permission sets are sufficient for you.
>
>
>Corinna
>
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>Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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>
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