X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43C3E148.4010607@juno.nrl.navy.mil> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:31:04 -0500 From: Ken Senior Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: permissions and ACLs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Ok, I tried attrib to no avail. After the machine accepted and seemed to process the commands, I entered the file properties dialog and the read-only box is still shaded. Also, I still can't delete the C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe file. C:\cygwin\bin>mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,noumount) C:\cygwin\bin>attrib -R C:\cygwin /S /D C:\cygwin\bin>attrib -R C:\cygwin\bin /S /D C:\cygwin\bin>rm rsync.exe rm: cannot remove `rsync.exe': Permission denied C:\cygwin\bin>cacls c:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe c:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe SPACEAPPS\senior:F ROMULUS\senior:F I can't even wipe out the directory to start over. Here's the getfacl output for / and for /usr/bin/ senior AT romulus ~ $ getfacl / # file: / # owner: senior # group: Users user::rwx user:senior:rwx group::--- mask:rwx other:--- default:user:senior:rwx default:mask:rwx senior AT romulus ~ $ getfacl /usr/bin # file: /usr/bin # owner: senior # group: Users user::rwx user:senior:rwx group::rwx mask:rwx other:--- default:user:senior:rwx default:mask:rwx senior AT romulus ~ $ -- 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/