On my Windows XP box at home I can easily manipulate permissions:
[Home XP]: touch file [Home XP]: ls -l file -rw-rw-r-- 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file [Home XP]: chmod 777 file [Home XP]: ls -l file -rwxrwxrwx 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file*
However on my work XP box:
[Work XP]: touch file [Work XP]: ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file [Work XP]: chmod 777 file [Work XP]: ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file
Now I'm wondering why I can chmod here?!? The only difference that I see is that at home my home directory is simply on my C drive and I'm not in a domain while at work my home directory is mapped from a server to my H drive. I know that this oddity is happening because Windows permissions are not equal to Posix permissions and I've tried everything I know how to do to get Windows to allow me to open up the permissions from a Posix perspective. Anybody know how I could get it so that a chmod 666 file will actually yield me a rw-rw-rw mask?
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