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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 11:27:13 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc
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Greetings, Marco Atzeri!

>> 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

I would say, if you want to see _windows_ permissions, you need to use cacls.
gerfacl only show POSIX approximation of windows permissions.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 16.02.2014, <11:21>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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