On Aug 4 20:51, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> A check for non-NTFS should be sufficient for now, IMHO. It's bad >> enough to run an OS on such an insecure file system, but it's hard to >> enforce upgrading to NTFS. However, ntsec and smbntsec are dead in the >> water and I don't think we should encourage usage of noacl more than >> necessary, especially for sensitive services. > > So, I'd basically need to check the fstype for each of the directories of > interest (they MAY all be on the same volume, but not necessarily). > /var > /var/run > /var/log > /var/empty > /etc > So, how do I do that portably? The 1.7 version of mount returns that > information, but the 1.5 version does not. What if I import your
Oh, right. > getvolinfo program > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00040.html > as one of the csih helper progs, and put it under /usr/lib/csih/ > (alternatively, import getvolinfo into cygutils). > > In that case, I wouldn't need to check for NTFS at all -- instead, I'd > check for "FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS[ ]*: TRUE", right? Sounds like a good idea to me. OTOH, whatever you test, you might not cover all situations. What about letting the user override the test? 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/
