Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Eliot Moss writes: > I looked upstream, and at least some of the files I am concerned about > are installed using "tar" piped to another "tar", with umask 022 set > explicitly. I think the problem is that the source of this copying > has 600 or 700 permissions. Not sure if *that* is an upstream p

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-11 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/11/2017 8:34 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/10/2017 10:33 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-10 20:00, Eliot Moss wrote: Backup processes should run with SeBackupPrivilege. Reasonable. CrashPlan runs using SYSTEM access. I will try adding SYSTEM to the BackupOperators group, which presumab

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-11 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/10/2017 10:33 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-10 20:00, Eliot Moss wrote: Backup processes should run with SeBackupPrivilege. Reasonable. CrashPlan runs using SYSTEM access. I will try adding SYSTEM to the BackupOperators group, which presumably has SeBackupPrivilege (and SeRestorePr

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-10 20:00, Eliot Moss wrote: >> Backup processes should run with SeBackupPrivilege. > > Reasonable. CrashPlan runs using SYSTEM access. I > will try adding SYSTEM to the BackupOperators group, > which presumably has SeBackupPrivilege (and > SeRestorePrivilege). I am not sure how else

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Eliot Moss
Backup processes should run with SeBackupPrivilege. Reasonable. CrashPlan runs using SYSTEM access. I will try adding SYSTEM to the BackupOperators group, which presumably has SeBackupPrivilege (and SeRestorePrivilege). I am not sure how else to approach granting suitable privilege to this pr

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-10 17:17, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 7/10/2017 6:27 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> On 10.07.2017 14:02, Eliot Moss wrote: >>> On 7/10/2017 4:24 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> You can't ask every vendor of everything that you have installed >> or "git pulled" to fix their permissions because your ba

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > I'm not asking "every vendor". I'm asking a limited number of > cygwin port maintainers (and so far only one specifically). > > CrashPlan does not have "bizarre" limitations -- it quite > naturally has some difficulty if a file's access does no

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/10/2017 6:27 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote: On 10.07.2017 14:02, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/10/2017 4:24 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: You can't ask every vendor of everything that you have installed or "git pulled" to fix their permissions because your backup program has bizarre limitations. I'm not ask

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 10.07.2017 14:02, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/10/2017 4:24 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Eliot Moss writes: Dear maintainer of git I use CrashPlan as my backup engine. It has difficulty backing up files with no "other" access. Many git locale (.mo) and doc-related files have permissions 600 (dir

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/10/2017 4:24 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Eliot Moss writes: Dear maintainer of git I use CrashPlan as my backup engine. It has difficulty backing up files with no "other" access. Many git locale (.mo) and doc-related files have permissions 600 (directories 700). Is there a good reason f

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/10/2017 4:24 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Eliot Moss writes: Dear maintainer of git I use CrashPlan as my backup engine. It has difficulty backing up files with no "other" access. Many git locale (.mo) and doc-related files have permissions 600 (directories 700). Is there a good reason f

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Eliot Moss writes: > Dear maintainer of git > > I use CrashPlan as my backup engine. It has difficulty backing up > files with no "other" access. Many git locale (.mo) and doc-related > files have permissions 600 (directories 700). Is there a good reason > for this? I would think that 644