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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:14:59 +0100
From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc
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On 16/02/2014 03:12, Gerry Reno wrote:
> I have a Windows MSI installer that first loads Cygwin and then has a deferred copy of some files into /usr/local/bin
> and /usr/local/etc.
>
> The copies into /usr/local/bin succeed fine.
>
> The copies into /usr/local/etc always get Access denied.
>
> I've tried swapping them and same behavior.  The files that would copy into /usr/local/bin now would not copy into
> /usr/local/etc.
>
> I'm seeing this behavior on Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 w/UAC.
>
> The installer prompts the user for elevated privileges to deal with UAC.
>
> Is there some underlying difference in the way that /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc are configured in Cygwin?


it should be no difference.
However you can check the Windows ACL with

$ cd /usr/local

/usr/local
$ getfacl bin
# file: bin
# owner: marco
# group: Administrators
user::rwx
group::r-x
mask:rwx
other:r-x
default:user::rwx
default:group::r-x
default:other:r-x

$ getfacl etc
# file: etc
# owner: marco
# group: Administrators
user::rwx
group::r-x
mask:rwx
other:r-x
default:user::rwx
default:group::r-x
default:other:r-x

however, I will not be surprised if setup run by a MSI have additional
limitation.

Can you install the same "package" by setup alone to compare ?


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