Hi Corinna, Perhaps not relevant anymore (since you have returned to the drawing board) ...
- after installing update 3 to Cygwin 2.0 ... - created file while being logged on as user Test; subsequently executed: chmod 460 file - switched back to user Henri and attempted to touch file: failed - however, using Cygwin 1.7, and repeating the same procedure, I am able to touch the file (called file2) Regards, Henri = Cygwin 2.0 -- logged on as user Test %% uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW Seven 2.0.0(0.287/5/3) 2015-04-12 21:09 i686 Cygwin %% pwd /home/Test %% id uid=197614(Test) gid=197121(None) groups=197121(None), ... followed by irrelevant j. 545(Users), 4(INTERACTIVE)66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization),113(Local acount),4095(CurrentSession), 66048(LOCAL),262154(NTLM Authentication),401408(Medim Mandatory Level) %% touch file %% chmod 460 file %% echo aha > file bash: file: Permission denied %% getfacl file # file: file # owner: Test # group: None user::r-- group::r-x mask:rw- other:--- %% icacls file # note: here I removed all white clobber in the output file NULL SID:(DENY)(Rc,S,WEA,X,DC) Seven\Test:(DENY)(S,WD,AD,WEA,DC) Sven\Test:(R,D,WDAC,WO,WA) # yes, should be Seven\Test ... Oh well Seven\None:(DENY)(S,X) Seven\None:(RX) Evryone:(Rc,S,RA) # yes, should be Everyone ... bzzz Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files %% ++ logoff Test, logon Henri %% pwd /home/Henri %% cd ../Test %% id uid=197608(Henri) gid=197121(None) groups=197121(None), ... followed by irrelevant j. 197615(HelpLibraryUpdaters),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization), 113(Local account),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCAL),262154(NTLM Authentication),401408(Medium Mandatory Level) %% ls -l file -r--rw---- 1 Test None 0 Apr 13 17:12 file %% echo ho,ho > file bash: file: Permission denied # Huh? No, no, no ... %% getfacl file # same output as above %% icacls file # same output as above ----- = Cygwin 1.7 -- logged in as user Test @@ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW Seven 1.7.36(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-17 10:46 i686 Cygwin @@ pwd /home/Test @@ id -a uid=1006(Test) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users) @@ touch file2 @@ chmod 460 file2 @@ ls -l file2 -r--rw---- 1 Test None 0 Apr 13 17:30 file2 @@ echo aha > file2 bash: file2: Permission denied @@ getfacl file2 # file: file2 # owner: Test # group: None user::r-- group::rw- other:--- @@ icacls file2 file2 Seven\Test:(DENY)(S,WD,AD,WEA) Seven\Test:(R,D,WDAC,WO,WA) Seven\None:(R,W) Everyone:(Rc,S,RA) Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files ++ logoff Test, logon Henri @@ pwd /home/Henri @@ id -a uid=1000(Henri) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),1007(HelpLibraryUpdaters),545(Users) @@ cd ../Test @@ ls -l file2 -r--rw---- 1 Test None 0 Apr 13 17:30 file2 @@ echo ho,ho > file2 # Yes, that is Unixy @@ getfacl file2 # same output as above @@ icacls file2 # same output as above ===== -- 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