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? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/