Dave Korn wrote: > On 02 February 2007 19:37, Jim Garrison wrote: > >> Every file created by a non-Cygwin app appears in Cygwin >> with mode 0700. I've read the documents pertaining to >> ntfs permissions in Cygwin but don't see a way to configure >> things so that Cygwin sees them as a more reasonable 0755 >> or 0644 (for non-executables). >> >> I have a valid /etc/passwd and /etc/group (generated by >> mkpasswd and mkgroup). >> >> Is it possible to configure Cygwin so it sees >> non-Cygwin-created files as 0644 or 0755? >> > > Cygwin represents the perms as whatever the posix equivalent is of the perms > that the win32 app that created the file set, so is it possible the files are > genuinely being created with perms only for your user? Bear in mind that > permissions can be inherited on a newly created file from the parent directory > containing the new file... > > As a test, I created an empty text file through the explorer context menu > (New->Text Document). In /tmp, it showed up with 777 perms automatically. > However, in a directory with 755 perms, it showed up with 755 perms. > > Are you testing this with different win32 apps and creating files in > different directories and seeing the same result everywhere? If you create a > file in /tmp using windows explorer like I did, how does it show up in the > output of 1) "ls -la", 2) "getfacl", 3) "cacls" ? > Interesting. I get the desired results if I change the NTFS permissions for the folder to "Everyone (Read & Execute)". After that one change, all existing files in the folder now show up 0755 instead of 0700.
Doing a Cygwin "chmod 0755" on the folder had no effect on inherited permissions, but DID change the permissions shown by "ls -ld ." Does Cygwin store its own "override" permissions if you use the chmod command? -- 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/
