On 25 February 2008 10:36, Marc Girod wrote: >> So, try your original test again, but with >> >> ~> export CYGWIN=ntsec smbntsec >> >> at the start. > > Thanks. This helpped. > I didn't even have to give the chmod again. > With the environment variable, the rights showed up correctly. > [I now set this to my .bash_profile]
I always set my basic CYGWIN settings in the windows system properties global environment. > Which is of course worrisome: in order to read my password, > on just needs to unset the CYGWIN environment variable... If the remote drive supports proper NTFS ACLs, any file cygwin creates on it /while/ CYGWIN=smbntsec is in effect will have proper NTFS access permissions, so, e.g. if it has rwx------, it will only have access permissions for your windows user account. You might want to chmod -R 700 (or whatever group/world perms you'd prefer) your home drive to make sure nobody can go snooping. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/