X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:52:10 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: how to deny delete Message-ID: <20120423115210.GC7097@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <33732027 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <33732027.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple