On Jan 7 14:18, Tom Rodman wrote: > On Sun 1/7/07 12:23 +0100 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: > > On Jan 5 13:34, Tom Rodman wrote: > > > setfacl -m u:jdoe:rwx foo > > > > > > Above command returns 0 but jdoe can not write. The cause appears to > > > be that the windows RO file attribute is not unset by setfacl. > > > > I see the point. That old DOS R/O attribute is SO crappy on a file > > system which supports real permissions. Oh well... > > theory - these 2 steps will make *any* windows NTFS file, > no matter what it's owner, group, perms, or file attributes are, > writable by user "jdoe" (assuming it's not "in use"): > > setfacl -m u:jdoe:rwx foo > # running as administrator "jdoe" > cmd /c attrib -R foo > # setacl step above allows the 'attrib' to work for user "jdoe" > > I appreciate the power in setfacl. :->
I've applied a patch to Cygwin yesterday which resets the R/O attribute if one ACE sets write permission. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
