>On Aug 11 16:28, Luke Ordelmans wrote: >> Running cygwin 64-bit on Windows 8 doesn't allow me to remove group >> permissions from a file. On 32-bit cygwin doing the same thing works fine. >> >> Luke@Sorcerer ~/test $ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-6.2 Sorcerer 1.7.23(0.268/5/3) 2013-08-09 10:05 x86_64 Cygwin >> Luke@Sorcerer ~/test $ touch test >> Luke@Sorcerer ~/test $ chmod -c 600 test >> mode of `test' changed from 0660 (rw-rw----) to 0600 (rw-------) >> Luke@Sorcerer ~/test $ ls -la total 4.0K >> drwxrwx---+ 1 Luke None 0 Aug 11 15:40 ./ >> drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Luke None 0 Aug 11 15:40 ../ >> -rw-rw---- 1 Luke None 0 Aug 11 15:40 test >> Luke@Sorcerer ~/test $ umask >> 0077 > >Works fine for me. The only reason I can see is that the permissions >and inheritance rules on the parent directory are so that the None >group always has rw access, despite what you set for the file. > >What does `cacls .' and `cacls test' print? > >Corinna
Spot on! Explicitly removing all rights for 'None' from the top-level d:\cygwin64 solved the problem, thanks! Luke -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
