---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jim McNamara <nefarioussch...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 1:37 PM Subject: Fwd: Switching to posix with no acl To: Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jim McNamara <nefarioussch...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 12:57 AM Subject: Switching to posix with no acl To: Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> Hi all Since there are no adduser or addgroup, I guess I'd create those files manually off /etc. Then I'd run passwd. After that put in /etc/fstab none /cygdrive cygdrive binary, posix=0, noacl, user 0 0 Close all processes. That would give me a posix permission set up, right? I read something about windows ignoring some dos bit with a file permission but that is outside of cygwin...right? Lastly, with acl you open an administrator cmd shell. With posix can I escalate to root and stay away from admin cmd shell? Is anyone else using posfix setup in general or mostly acl? Thanks for any help! Roboloki Sat. Nov. 14 1:35 pm Hi all- I found in the manual about the execute bit permission being ignored in filesystems with acl. That answered one question above. I can just take advantage of how exe heuristics work. If I find myself in a position where it needs administrator rights via a shell, will it interfere with my posix permissions, users, or groups once the /etc/groups and /etc/password and fstab are already setup? Did the fstab entry above look okay for posix permission? Thanks for any assistance ! Roboloki Sat. Nov. 14, 1:45 PM HI all - I had a privilege escalation window come up for instance when running a system supplied configure script for sshd ( I think ). It gave the choices yes or no prompting to choose carefully for noacl permission mode or acl translation setup. I think that prompt is very good. Will it (administrator mode) always at least ask or identify which type of setup if required? Thanks as always, Robo-loki -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
