On Apr 14 15:49, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote: > At present I have: > > $ getfacl id_rsa2 > # file: id_rsa2 > # owner: moss > # group: moss > user::rw- > group::--- > group:SYSTEM:r-- #effective:--- > mask::--- > other::--- > > $ icacls id_rsa2 > id_rsa2 NULL SID:(DENY)(Rc,DC) > ELIOT-SURFACE-3\moss:(R,W,D,WDAC,WO) > ELIOT-SURFACE-3\moss:(Rc,S,RA) > NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(R) > Everyone:(Rc,S,RA) > > I don't claim expert level understanding of the Windows access > scheme, but Windows Explorer believes that SYSTEM has read access > to the file, so I suppose this will work. I guess we're kind of > lying to cygwin a little - but in a way that is useful here.
Oh, cool, of course! Given "mask" is POSIX-only, the backup tool should work nicely. Great solution! I should have thought of that myself, given how long I have hacked on this POSIX ACL stuff... Corinna -- 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
