Bryan Berns writes: > I honestly haven't read up exactly how Cygwin interprets NTFS > ACL/ACEs, but I remember seeing on the mailing list that a change was > made in 1.7.35 was made to permission handling. It is preferable in > my organization that the SYSTEM account always have full control the > local file system. When using chmod under 1.7.35, it looks like > permissions for SYSTEM get stripped (as well as some others). Is this > the desired behavior?
That's the latest attempt to make those tools conform more closely to POSIX semantics (which it actually does). As you note, this is fine if that's your goal and undesired or even somewhat dangerous if you aren't aware of it and letting them lose on Windows' own files. I have an inkling that (just like acl/noacl) this removal of ACL depending on which way you set the file modes should probably be an option to chose in the fstab for each mount listed there, especially if it works on bind mounts. However, I'm not sure how much that would complicate the code and if it's realistic to expect that to be implemented soon. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldUserWavetables -- 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
