On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:21:54PM -0800, Mark McWiggins wrote:
> I'm working with a company that deploys tar files from Unix to Windows 
> where the
> Windows administrators set their directories up with various ACLs.
> 
> Cygwin's default TAR program destroys these ACLs when files are unpacked 
> into
> these directories.

What do you mean "destroys"?  tar changes the ACLs on the directories?
Or just creates files that don't inherit their directory's ACLs?
If the latter, does setting CYGWIN=nontsec help?

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