Dear cygwiners -- For a long time I _had_ things working, but somehow in switching over to using cygwin64 as primary, I messed up permissions on the directories where a backup program (EaseUS) puts things. I made the permissions similar to elsewhere in by cygwin hierarchy, but I still cannot chown, chgrp, or chmod files created by the backup tool - but doing so used to work!
Here is icacls on one of the files: icacls System_20191220_Inc_v1.pbd System_20191220_Inc_v1.pbd NULL SID:(I)(DENY)(Rc,S,WD,REA,WEA,X,DC) BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(F) EM-SURFACE-2018\Cygwin:(I)(RX,W,DC) NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(RX) Everyone:(I)(RX) Note that I am an administrator and in in Cygwin (at least "groups" shows Cygwin). Here is icacls on the containing directory, which has been "cygwin-ized": icacls . . NULL SID:(DENY)(Rc,S,WD,REA,WEA,X,DC) EM-SURFACE-2018\moss:(F) EM-SURFACE-2018\Cygwin:(RX,W,DC) BUILTIN\Administrators:(RX,W,DC) Everyone:(RX) NULL SID:(OI)(CI)(IO)(DENY)(Rc,S,WD,REA,WEA,X,DC) CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F) EM-SURFACE-2018\Cygwin:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX,W,DC) NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX,W,DC) Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)(RX) And getfacl on the same: # file: . # owner: moss # group: Cygwin # flags: -s- user::rwx group::rwx group:Administrators:rwx mask::rwx other::r-x default:user::rwx default:group::rwx default:group:SYSTEM:r-x default:group:Administrators:rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::r-x So ... why can't I chown, etc., the pbd file, and what needs to change for me to be able to do so? (I _do_ mostly understand this stuff, but maybe I'm just too tired and just can;t see the obvious!) Regards - Eliot -- 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