my pc uses windows 2000 professional, and my cygwin folder is C:\cygwin . i've been looking into giving co-workers access to the cygwin setup on my pc, but i've noticed something strange: it seems that the default security setup allows EVERYONE full access to the cygwin folder and all subfolders. but i certainly don't want any user on my pc to have this sort of access, and to prevent that from happening, i'm going to have to rework the cygwin profiling. i'm something of a pc newbie, and it's been rather painful sorting out just how to specify the security settings appropriately.
it seems to me that it would have made far more sense to make the cygwin files have the same security profile(s) as any other file that happens to get installed on the system. that way, it would be easy for me simply specify that any user would have full access to his own directories/subfolders, but only read/execute access to cygwin software, and no access whatsoever to the folders of another user. question: what was the reason for giving EVERYONE full access to the cygwin folder and everything in it? btw, i'll shortly be making another post regarding organizing user files that's partially related to this post. gene -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
