On 2024-01-21 23:18, John Ruckstuhl via Cygwin wrote:
I am seeing a weird phenomenon, hopefully someone can illuminate and teach.
Or point me to an archived thread.

I have some folders that Cygwin utils can readily access,
but W10 utils claim to have no access to.
It feels as if
*   the Cygwin utils try to do what they are commanded to do, and it's
     up to the OS to refuse if the ACLs are insufficient.
*   the W10 utils are written to decline to attempt access, due to some
     convention or gentlemen's agreement (built into some API?).
But wouldn't that lead Windows users to a false sense of protection, a
false sense of security?

Environment
*   Cygwin 3.4.9-1 on W10.  64-bit.
*   UAC is not active (based on EnableLUA=0 at boot)

I have a 3rd-party program “yabba” that many different users run (on the
same shared PC).
It leaves behind a “temporary” dir (under
C:/Users/username/AppData/Local/Temp), each time it’s run.
Many times per day.
These dirs are approx. 1000 files and 20 MB.
The 3rd-party program is an exe-file compiled with pyinstaller.
It unpacks a python script and a python interpreter, and runs the python
script.
But in our workflow, we usually terminate the execution brutally, so the
pyinstaller cleanup does not happen, leaving the 20 MB behind.

I want Bob, a member of the local group Administrators, to remove these folders.

For example, ordinary user Alice runs yabba a couple of times and leaves
behind 20 MB  in each of
     C:/Users/Alice/AppData/Local/Temp/_MEI21002
     C:/Users/Alice/AppData/Local/Temp/_MEI21282

Now for Local Administrator Bob, no impediment seeing these two dirs...
     $ cd C\:/Users/Alice/AppData/Local/Temp
     $ D1=_MEI21002
     $ D2=_MEI21282
     $ du -sh $D1 $D2
     21M     _MEI21002
     21M     _MEI21282
     $ for D in $D1 $D2; do printf "%s\t%s\n" $D "$(find "$D" -mindepth
1 -type d -printf "dirs\n" -o -printf "files\n" | sort | uniq -c |
paste - -)"; done
     _MEI21002            34 dirs        940 files
     _MEI21282            33 dirs        929 files
     $ getfacl $D1 $D2
     # file: _MEI21002
     # owner: Alice
     # group: Domain Users
     user::rwx
     group::---
     group:OWNER RIGHTS:rwx
     mask::rwx
     other::---


     # file: _MEI21282
     # owner: Alice
     # group: Domain Users
     user::rwx
     group::---
     group:OWNER RIGHTS:rwx
     mask::rwx
     other::---

And (for Local Administrator Bob) no impediment to removing them, for example,
     $ rm -r _MEI21282
(success!)

BUT Windows utils run by Bob the Administrator on the remaining dir
are blocked, like this
(cmd, "Run as administrator"):
     C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp>dir _MEI21002
     Volume in drive C is OSDisk
     Volume Serial Number is 581C-10F2

     Directory of C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI21002

     File Not Found

     C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp>icacls _MEI21002
     _MEI21002: Access is denied.
     Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

As a consequence, Windows utils run by Bob the Administrator cannot
delete Alice's directory.  Until they do a takeown.

The first try to delete fails:
     C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp>del /S /Q _MEI21002
     Could Not Find C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI21002\*

But a takeown succeeds
     C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp>takeown /A /F _MEI21002 /R /D Y

Now icacls has access
     C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp>icacls _MEI21002
     _MEI21002 BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(IO)(F)
               BUILTIN\Administrators:(CI)(F)

     Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

And the second try to delete succeeds
     C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp>del /S /Q _MEI21002

In summary, why is it that Bob the Administrator can Cygwin "rm.exe" to
delete these folders without taking ownership, but to delete with
Windows utils, he needs to take ownership first?

I normally find the problem is that a directory has no useful Windows DACLs defined, so directories or files created in it by Cygwin programs are not accessible to Windows programs. It seems to me, that when Cygwin creates directories or files in those directories, they have no Windows ACLs defaulted, but they seem to look fine to Cygwin's assumed POSIX permissions, as if on FAT drives?
Better explanations would be welcome.

For directories, run:

        $ lsattr -adl   $D
        $ ls -adlL      $D
        $ getfacl       $D
        $ icalcs "$(cygpath -m "$D")"

and for files, skip lsattr.

This should show you all the views of permissions you need to figure out the 
issue.

--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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