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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 23:08:34 +0900
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: access X_OK for administrators has changed in cygwin 3.5.5
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From: Takashi Yano via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 01:29:47 +0100
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The behaviour of the access(_, X_OK) call has changed for administrator
> users in Cygwin 3.5.5. I don't know whether that's intended or not
> (haven't seen it mentioned in
> <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2024-December/012023.html>).
> 
> How to reproduce:
> ========================== foo.c ===========================
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <grp.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> int main ()
> {
>   close (creat ("file", 0600));
>   chmod ("file", 0400);
>   printf ("file X_OK ? %d\n", access ("file", X_OK));
> }
> ============================================================
> 1. In a normal Cygwin console (mintty):
>    $ rm -f file
>    $ gcc -Wall foo.c
>    $ ./a
>    => file X_OK ? -1
> 2. In a Cygwin console that runs "as administrator":
>    $ ./a
>    => In Cygwin 3.4.6: file X_OK ? -1
>       In Cygwin 3.5.5: file X_OK ? 0

Thanks for the report.

It is natural that the previleged account such as Administrator
and root (linux) have a full permission even with mode 400.

However, x permission should not be asserted for mode 400
even for Administrator/root, while it should enabled for
mode 500, 410, 401 etc.

Let me consider how to fix that.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi DOT yano AT nifty DOT ne DOT jp>

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