At 11:31 AM 9/26/2003 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >The "real" fix would be to make setup create the directories with the >right permissions from the start. I'm not sure this is possible. >Perhaps people with more knowledge of ACLs (Pierre, Corinna, CGF?) will >chime in and offer their opinions...
Sure, but what are the right permissions? Some people objet to giving access to Everybody. The group name and whether the group should have write access are matters of local preference. So setup uses the default inheritable acl of the directory under which cygwin is installed. It works just fine in most cases. I don't know why in this case group Users got no rights. This is not a typical factory default, it was most probably set that way for some local reason. Perhaps the exit message of setup should be to remind the installer to verify the permissions (PTC). Or perhaps that's another test that could be added into /etc/profile, nagging the user "are you sure this is really what you want". Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
