From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Extended Attributes and File Permissions
23 Mar 1998 16:59:50 -0800
Message-ID: <EqAsFy.7Fs.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
References: <c=US%a=_%p=Butler_Manufactu%l=BUILDINGS/BLDGSHUB/00087454 AT nttwr2 DOT tower DOT bldgs DOT butlermfg DOT org>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

In article <c=US%a=_%p=Butler_Manufactu%l=BUILDINGS/BLDGSHUB/00087454 AT nttwr2 DOT tower DOT bldgs DOT butlermfg DOT org>,
Parker, Ron <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org> wrote:
>I agree that extended attributes, EAs, should be off by default. I would
>like to see us adopt a file permission mechanism that is more compatible
>with windows applications and relied less heavily on EAs.
>
>On NTFS files have the following rights Read, Write, eXecute, Delete,
>set Permissions and take Ownership. These are the RWXDPO permissions.
[thoughts about ACLs snipped]

I don't know much about ACLs and security but it does seem that these could
worked up to provide a more one-to-one mapping with UNIX permissions.

Does this scheme work on Windows 95, though?
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