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On Apr 23 02:23, pen wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that on windows 7, even if we protect a folder by selecting
> "delete - Deny" in permissions, cygwin doesn't care and it allows to
> continue with rm. I think this is not good. I can think of other ways like
> creating a lock file in my scripts but that wont be a clean way. Isn't there
> any way that i can set some level of protection in NTFS without too much of
> fuss. I need to write to files and folder underneath but only want to deny
> delete permission on that top folder.

If the user is neither the owner of the dir, nor an admin, and if the
permissions are set to 0700, the user won't be able to delete the
folder.


Corinna

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