Greetings, Bryan Berns! > 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.
Then mount filesystem noacl (except core Cygwin stuff). POSIX permissions are VERY special kind for Windows, and not always the best idea to try. > 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? If so, I'll workaround it somehow but just > wanted to verify before we release this much anticipated Active > Directory optimized version. For context, I'm running as the default > Domain Administrator on a fresh install of Windows 8.1. > @@@@@@ Testing With 1.7.34 @@@@@@ > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.3 BERNS-WINDOWS 1.7.34(0.285/5/3) 2015-02-04 12:14 x86_64 Cygwin > $ mkdir TEST-34 > $ chmod 750 TEST-34 > $ icacls TEST-34 > TEST-34 DOMAIN\Administrator:(F) > DOMAIN\Domain Users:(RX) > Everyone:(Rc,S,RA) > BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F) > NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F) > BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(RX) > NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(M) > NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(OI)(CI)(IO)(M) > CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F) > CREATOR GROUP:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) > Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) > Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files > @@@@@@ Testing With 1.7.35 @@@@@@ > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.3 BERNS-WINDOWS 1.7.35(0.286/5/3) 2015-02-25 13:13 x86_64 Cygwin > $ mkdir TEST-35 > $ chmod 750 TEST-35 > $ icacls TEST-35 > TEST-35 DOMAIN\Administrator:(F) > DOMAIN\Domain Users:(RX) > Everyone:(Rc,S,RA) > BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(RX) > NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(RX) > BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(RX) > NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(RX) > NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(OI)(CI)(IO) > CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) > CREATOR GROUP:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) > Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) > Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 26.02.2015, <22:50> 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
