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Subject: Re: `setfacl -m u:jdoe:rwx foo` returns 0, but file not writable by jdoe??
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On Jan  5 13:34, Tom Rodman wrote:
> Admittedly, this may be going "outside the cygwin perms model" a bit:
> 
> In the below test case file 'foo' has it's RO file attribute set, then has
> it's owner changed to someone other than the current user, has the posix
> group set to None, the DACL protected, and all aces removed from the DACL.
> 
> Next step is to run this (assumes we are user 'jdoe' [an administrator]):
> 
>   setfacl -m u:jdoe:rwx foo
> 
> Above command returns 0 but jdoe can not write.  The cause appears to
> be that the windows RO file attribute is not unset by setfacl.

I see the point.  That old DOS R/O attribute is SO crappy on a file
system which supports real permissions.  Oh well...


Corinna

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