On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:18:32PM -0600, Arek wrote: > > > At 03:30 PM 1/31/2002, Arek wrote: > > >AFAIK, Cygwin doesn't use NT user permissions. > > > > Exactly what is the basis for this statement? Have you read the user's > > guide? The 'ntsec' option of the CYGWIN environment variable does a > > real nice job of maintaining user permissions in a POSIX way when used > > as directed. > > > Hrm...I hadn't looked into that much. > > Perhaps, then, this is related to how cygwin is reading the permissions. > It sees that this directory belongs to the user 'Everyone' (not everybody as > I said earlier...), and that that user (and only that user) has full > permissions on that directory. In any case, the most likely solution is the > same: Delete the directory using windows explorer and recreate it from > within cygwin.
Nonsense. `Everybody' is a builtin group with a very similar semantic as `other' in U*X. Actually it's semantic is `all', not exactly `others'. If you don't want the directory belonging to everybody, just use chown(1). That's what it's created for. 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/
