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-Originating-IP: [68.101.155.172] X-Originating-Email: [karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com] X-Sender: karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com From: "Karl M" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Bash: when is WinXP not WinXP?? Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:27:02 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Oct 2004 14:28:07.0783 (UTC) FILETIME=[DBD36F70:01C4B130] X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 > >-- >Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to >Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com >Red Hat, Inc. > >-- _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement -- 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/