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Subject: Re: getfacl seems to list wrong permissions for Group
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On Aug 19 16:21, L Anderson wrote:
> In directory /cygwin/bin of my cygwin installation,
> 
> $ ls -l  //yields:
> [snip]
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 lowella Administrators 73742 Nov 14 2010 zsyncmake.exe
> 
> and
> 
> $ ls -ln  //yields
> [snip]
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 1000  544  73742 Nov 14  2010 zsyncmake.exe
> 
> and
> 
> $ stat -c '%A %a %n' *  //yields:
> [snip]
> -rwxr-xr-x 755 zsyncmake.exe
> 
> all quite consistent and pretty much as expected.
> NB: zsyncmake.exe is the last file listed from /bin.
> 
> However,
> 
> $ getfacl -a zsyncmake.exe  //yields:
> # file: zsyncmake.exe
> # owner: lowella
> # group: Administrators
> user::rwx
> group::---
> mask:rwx
> other:r-x
> 
> Why does getfacl give "group::---" instead of "group::r-x" as
> appears in the ls and stat listings?  Is this a bug in getfacl?

No.  getfacl shows the ACL as is (from a POSIX perspective),
the stat/ls information shows the effective POSIX permissions
for the group which are a result of the facts that "Everyone" has
r-x permissions and that permissions on Windows are cumulative.


Corinna

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