I hate MS for this matter, why they have to have a Home version and a Pro version, it's all money related!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yufeng Xiong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "David Rothenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Questions on cygwin filemode in WindowsXP > XP Home hides the permissions and doesn't provide a GUI tool for manipulating > them. If you search the web, you can find folks that claim they have been > successful at restoring the XP Pro Security tab to the GUI by playing some > games with service packs from NT4. But that's a different matter. > > Larry > > > At 11:12 AM 4/1/2004, you wrote: > >Thanks David for the help. > > > >The getfacl/setfacl command works fine. > >And the setting change in xmeacs also works. > > > >I'm using WindowsXP @Home, it does not seem to have anything available for > >changing > >file permissions from Windows itself, does anybody know how to do it ? > > > >Thanks. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "David Rothenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Yufeng Xiong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:15 AM > >Subject: Re: Questions on cygwin filemode in WindowsXP > > > > > >> Yufeng Xiong wrote: > >> > >> >1. What is the '+' in the file mode? I know it has something to do with > >file > >> >permission, after > >> >the editing, my web server/PHP does not have permission to open test.php > >> >anymore > >> > > >> I believe the "+" indicates that there are some Windows permissions that > >> do not map to the Unix-style user/group/other. For example, if I create > >> a new file using cygwin (say, with touch), and then open the file's > >> properties with Windows and explicitly add permission for another user > >> to modify the file, I see the "+". > >> > >> >2. How do I set the '+' in mode manually? I used 'fstat' on the two files > >> >and it shows the exact > >> >same mode (o100700). > >> > > >> Well, you can copy all the file attributes from one file (sourceFile) to > >> another (destFile) with a command like this: > >> > >> % getfacl - sourceFile | setfacl -f- destFile > >> > >> >3. Why xemacs changed the file mode? Could it be because of different > >file > >> >system? > >> > > >> Do "M-x customize-apropros" on "backup-by-copying". The default > >> behavior is to move the old file to the backup file and then create a > >> new file. If you set this option on (non-nil), the backup copy will be > >> made as a copy and the original file will be modified. This will > >> preserve the extra file permissions on the original file (although the > >> backup copy won't have them). > >> > >> HTH, > >> Dave > >> > > > > > >-- > >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/ > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
