Constantly have to wrestle with CYGWIN imposed ACLs on files I create. It's bothersome to constantly issue 'cacls /t' and 'icacls * /reset /t' commands to strip out the CYGWIN overrides after receiving complaints from others who can't access the files. No one is in the Administrators group.
The best solution would be to just turn it off (!) so that normal Windows ACL inheritance works the way it does outside of CYGWIN. A possible work-around if the above ideal solution is unavailable would be to have some way to change the group id to something other than "None". Can't find a 'newgrp' command and the '/etc/passwd' file and 'bash' login syntax clearly do not support this. Don't see any way to set the process default group in Windows without running a domain controller. I searched on this quite a bit before asking the list. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- 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/
