On Sep 20 18:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked into a problem reported today, that ~/.profile is not executed > if you use Cygwin to create your home directory, instead of using > Windows Explorer to create the directory. > > The user who reported it and I played around for a while, with getfacl > and setfacl to try to find the difference and fix them. While setfacl > doesn't seem to allow you to do everything you need (specifically, you > can't use it to delete the default group ACL for ~ since you have to > specify a group, but there is no group for the default group), ACLs may > not be the full explanation anyway.
get/setfacl are not designed to manipulate the ACLs in a WIndows way, but in a Unixy way. Keep in mind that you always have a primary group and always primary group permission bits in the POSIX permissions. You can't delete them, just set them to --- if you like. To get rid of the primary group ACE entirely, either use NT tools (cacls) or change the primary group for the file first. > We managed to set the two directories to appear to have identical ACLs > according to the Advanced security tab in the Windows Explorer > properties - but that still didn't help! > > Cygwin will only run ~/.profile if "~" was created via Win Explorer. > (This seems to be reasonably new behaviour - we've got a lot of users > who would have been affected every day, if this had been true for a > long time.) Sorry but this is bogus. There's no difference whether a directory is created using Cygwin or Windows. bash gets its idea of where the home directory is from the setting of $HOME. When starting up `bash --login' locally, then the Cygwin DLL constructs $HOME using the following rule: - If $HOME is present in the environment, convert it to a POSIX path and use it. - Otherwise, if the user has an /etc/passwd entry and this entry contains a non-empty pw_dir field, use this as $HOME. - Otherwise, if $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH are set in the Windows environment (they usually are), use them to create a POSIXy $HOME from them. - Otherwise use "/" as $HOME. Does that help? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
