You were correct Corinna. It was indeed the administrators group that was the owner. Windows security is perplexing to an old Unix-hand like me. I guess something in the process of migrating and restoring my home directory from another PC made the admin group the owner instead of me. Luckily I have found this TAKEOWN utility which seems to fix the issue.
On 6 November 2015 at 09:48, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On Nov 6 01:27, Jan Bruun Andersen wrote: >> I am not sure if this DLL snapshot (cygwin1-20151105-dll) is supposed >> to fix stuff like this, but I think I remember something about >> ordering ACL's? > > It's explained in the announcement. > >> Anyway I have this 'bin' directory in my home which shows up with >> 'Administratörer' (Swedish for Administrators) as the owner. I had >> hoped it would should me as the owner. > > Well, that's not what the DLL is supposed to do. The idea of the ACL > code is not to fake wrong ownership, it tries to evaluate POSIX ACLs as > correctly as possible given the underlying Windows ACL. > > In your case the owner of the dir *is* the administrators group, > otherwise Cygwin wouldn't show that. If you want to be owner you have > to make yourself actually owner, either in the Windows file security > tab, or by using Cygwin's chown as Admin. > >> Some output: >> >> jabba@Luap ~ >> $ ls -ld bin >> drwxrwx---+ 1 Administratörer jabba 0 Oct 29 15:42 bin >> >> jabba@Luap ~ >> $ getfacl bin >> # file: bin >> # owner: Administratörer >> # group: jabba >> user::rwx >> group::rwx >> group:SYSTEM:rwx >> mask:rwx >> other:--- >> default:user::rwx >> default:group::rwx >> default:group:SYSTEM:rwx >> default:group:jabba:rwx >> default:mask:rwx >> default:other:--- >> >> >> jabba@Luap ~ >> $ icacls bin >> bin NT instans\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F) >> BUILTIN\Administrat▒rer:(OI)(CI)(F) >> LUAP\jabba:(OI)(CI)(F) > > Note that the output of icacls does not tell you anything about > ownership. The ACL does not contain this information. For all we know > from this icacls output, the owner of the above ACL could be the "Guest" > user. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat -- 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
