On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:21:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:23:07PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they > >map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't. > >Can somebody explain to me the following: > > > >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? > > ntsec only works on NTFS drives.
and smbntsec turns it on on network drives. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
