Re: More about permissions

2015-04-01 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/1/2015 3:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sigh. This is really annoying from a developer's POV. I know ... Yes, yes, I still have "ignore SYSTEM in group handling?" on my TODO list... Thank you, Corinna. I appreciate your efforts, not only on the coding side but also in thinking throu

Re: More about permissions

2015-04-01 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Apr 1 03:52, Andrey Repin wrote: >> > Now where this really makes a difference is when I am transferring files >> > between my Windows >> > system and other systems that are Unix-based, using git, rsync, and such >> > tools. >> > Either I remove SYSTEM access o

Re: More about permissions

2015-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 1 03:52, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Now where this really makes a difference is when I am transferring files > > between my Windows > > system and other systems that are Unix-based, using git, rsync, and such > > tools. > > Either I remove SYSTEM access or the permissions get messed up. > >

Re: More about permissions

2015-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 31 20:41, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 3/31/2015 4:55 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > >> I am not sure this particular program (CrashPlan) works that way. > > > >That's not program property, but the user you run the program from. > > Perhaps, but it runs as a background service. I never explicitly

Re: More about permissions

2015-03-31 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eliot Moss! >>> I am not sure this particular program (CrashPlan) works that way. >> >> That's not program property, but the user you run the program from. > Perhaps, but it runs as a background service. I never explicitly said what > user it runs as, etc. > Looking in Services, I s

Re: More about permissions

2015-03-31 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/31/2015 4:55 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> I am not sure this particular program (CrashPlan) works that way. That's not program property, but the user you run the program from. Perhaps, but it runs as a background service. I never explicitly said what user it runs as, etc. Looking in Serv

Re: More about permissions

2015-03-31 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eliot Moss! >> Why does SYSTEM need full access to the files? If it's a backup tool, >> it has SE_BACKUP_NAME/SE_RESTORE_NAME access anyway. Every tool with >> Administrators in the token has the right to enable these access rights >> anyway. > I am not sure this particular program (

Re: More about permissions

2015-03-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 31 08:21, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 3/31/2015 6:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 30 23:26, Eliot Moss wrote: > >Taking the group s-bit into account is part of my work-in-progress for > >Cygwin 1.7.36. > > Step by step! Right. Baby steps :} > >>- I could not find an explanation of th

Yet more about permissions

2015-03-31 Thread Thomas Wolff
[Not sure whether this has been described before] I copied a zip file from my dropbox folder, where it has the following permissions by means of Dropbox: rwx---+ 1 towo None 691436 30. Mrz 18:32 m.zip # file: m.zip # owner: towo # group: None user::--- group::--- group:root:rwx group:Authent

Re: More about permissions

2015-03-31 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/31/2015 6:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 30 23:26, Eliot Moss wrote: The group s-bit is not yet taken into account. If you have "Cygwin" as your primary group in /etc/passwd or the account DB of choice (SAM/AD), using 0755 as permissions should do the same thing. Ok -- since I w

Re: More about permissions

2015-03-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 30 23:26, Eliot Moss wrote: > Dear Cygwin community -- > > Along with some others, I've been struggling a little to accommodate > the changes to permissions handling that came lately. I think I about > have it figured out to work mostly Unix-like within my cygwin tree, > but have one remai

More about permissions

2015-03-30 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear Cygwin community -- Along with some others, I've been struggling a little to accommodate the changes to permissions handling that came lately. I think I about have it figured out to work mostly Unix-like within my cygwin tree, but have one remaining thing I am wondering about, even though I