On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:32:08PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: > > +------------------- > | ntea just uses the HPFS like extended attributes to simulate > | file permissions. ntsec uses the NTFS ACLs to set real > | permissions. > +------------------- > > Because I have had CYGWIN='ntea' in ~/.profile since the first day > of installing cygwin, if I now switch over to 'ntsec', the permissions > look wrong in the output of `ls -la`.
Sure. They *are* wrong since the ACLs aren't used before but when ntsec is on they are read instead of the EAs. > Is there any way to overcome > this problem ? You could write a script. That's even more fun than setting all user/group/permission info by hand. Treat it as challenge. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
