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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:07:04 -0400
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: starlight AT binnacle DOT cx
Subject: setting default group and/or disabling CYGWIN ACL   behavior
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Constantly have to wrestle with CYGWIN imposed ACLs on files I 
create.  It's bothersome to constantly issue 'cacls /t' and 
'icacls * /reset /t' commands to strip out the CYGWIN overrides 
after receiving complaints from others who can't access the 
files.  No one is in the Administrators group.

The best solution would be to just turn it off (!) so that 
normal Windows ACL inheritance works the way it does outside of 
CYGWIN.

A possible work-around if the above ideal solution is 
unavailable would be to have some way to change the group id to 
something other than "None".  Can't find a 'newgrp' command and 
the '/etc/passwd' file and 'bash' login syntax clearly do not 
support this.  Don't see any way to set the process default 
group in Windows without running a domain controller.

I searched on this quite a bit before asking the list.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


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