On Jul 1 02:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
chmod? setfacl? umask? > 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". Everybody is in the None group if you don't have a DC. So I don't see the problem if you use a umask matching your needs. > Can't find a 'newgrp' command and > the '/etc/passwd' file and 'bash' login syntax clearly do not > support this. bash has nothing to do with that, of course. As for /etc/passwd, you didn't read the user's guide, apparently: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files > Don't see any way to set the process default > group in Windows without running a domain controller. There is no way. That doesn't mean we can't rectify this in Cygwin (within the imposed Windows rules). See above. 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/
