On Feb 27 09:57, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > Good point. Right now the group permissions are == owner permissions in > > the case the owner and group are the same. Maybe it would be better to > > remove all group permission bits if owner SID == group SID instead. > > I think that would be defendable since it is purely based on how Windows and > POSIX treat groups and users in different ways and not an artificial > exception that Cygwin makes on top of that.
Come to think of it, this would also drop the requirement to enforce primary group "Users" for the so-called "Microsoft Accounts", which have their own SID as group SID in the user token by default. Hmm, I'm really warming up to this change... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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