On Apr 20 17:38, Julio Costa wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 14:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Here's another simple approach:
> >
> > Keep all ownership as it is. Just add an ACE for the administrators
> > group with rw- access rights to the ACL of files created/unpacked by
> > setup.
> >
>
> I like that one too.
> Maybe even more simple would be to assign that ACE to the cygwin root,
> in the first install, and let it be inherited throughout all cygwin
> tree.
No, we don't inherit. The idea is to use POSIX semantics in the first
place, not Windows semantics.
> PS: It really should be rwx, right?
Not really. The execute permssion would be determined by group and
other permissions.
Oh well, the longer I think about it, the less necessary this all gets
in my mind. Given the way Cygwin opens files, all administrative users
will have read/write permissions on all files anyway, just like your
average "root" account. There should be not the faintest reason to
add explicit permissions for administrative users.
The longer I think about this the more sense makes solution 2:
If the current user is an administrative user, make "Administrators"
the group of the files:
owner: Current user.
group: Administrators.
This reflects default POSIX permissions on the non-user files in a
Cygwin installation most closely.
Corinna
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