Suprise! Another permission problem! This is a problem I’m guessing stems from three different sources: Vim, Cygwin, and Samba. With
set backupcopy=auto Vim on Cygwin 1.7 removes write permission when writing a file not owned by the current user on a Samba share. The Samba share has ACL support turned on and gets its user information from an Active Directory. Files with a mode of 0770 (which is what all files on the share have) get a mode of 0750 after Vim has written the file. File ownership is retained. Setting force security mode = 0770 in smb.conf on the Samba server solves the problem, but that’s a suboptimal solution. Nano has the same problem. Emacs writes it with mode 0644, which makes even less sense. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
