X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:47:34 +0200 From: Henk van Lingen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: File permissions cygwin install Message-ID: <20080715144734.GB9208@cs.uu.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP at cs.uu.nl X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Hi, I'm a cygwin rookie and can't get I clear clue (after googling) as to why after installing cygwin on WinXP I have these permissions: $ ls -al /cygdrive/c/cygwin/ total 9 drwxrwx---+ 11 administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:52 . drwxrwxr-x+ 11 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Jul 15 11:10 .. -rwxr-x---+ 1 administrator Users 57 Jul 3 11:46 Cygwin.bat -rwxr-x---+ 1 administrator Users 7022 Jul 3 11:46 Cygwin.ico drwxrwx---+ 2 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:45 bin drwxrwx---+ 2 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:44 cygdrive drwxrwx---+ 2 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:44 dev drwxrwx---+ 15 administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:57 etc drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:52 home drwxr-x---+ 20 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:44 lib drwxrwxrwt+ 2 administrator Users 0 Jul 15 16:00 tmp drwxrwx---+ 17 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:44 usr drwxrwx---+ 9 administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:21 var I don't beleieve it is supposed to be this way? I.e. it seems odd to give users write access in all kind of system directories? regards, -- Henk van Lingen, Systems Administrator & DBA (o- -+ Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University. /\ | phone: +31-30-2534107 v_/_ http://henk.vanlingen.net/ http://www.tuxtown.net/netiquette/ -- 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/