Greetings, carolus! >>> > How can one remount a hotplugged NTFS external USB drive as noacl? (I >>> > take it this is necessary to get sensible Windows permissions when using >>> > rsync for backup. If not, please correct me.) >> Change the /cygdrive entry in /etc/fstab >> Then you'll get normal Windows permissions everywhere, except, perhaps, the >> Cygwin root.
> Is this what you mean? > none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl,override 0 0 No need for override. This is how I have it set (I prefer just /<drive_letter> over /cygdrive/<...>): none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,noacl 0 0 > Is this a "good thing" to do? I find the following advice from the FAQ > intimidating: > Therefore, the root directory evaluated by Cygwin itself is treated as > an immutable mount point and can't be overridden in /etc/fstab... unless > you think you really know what you're doing. In this case, use the > override flag in the options field in the /etc/fstab file. Since this is > a dangerous thing to do, do so at your own risk. You're not remounting the Cygwin root. This paragraph does not apply here. However, there's a section explicitly dealing with caveats of using cygdrive prefix http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive > Will this affect my permission-dependent stuff like ssh authentication? No, it won't and actually there's little possibility it could, assuming you already have sane permissions on respective directories. In case of SSH keys handling, it's smart enough to check possible issues against real ACL's. -- WBR, Andrey Repin ([email protected]) 04.02.2014, <20:35> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
