Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > Btw., if you generate the permissions under Cygwin, a file with > ---rwx--- permissions will have the matching deny ACE to make the > permissions the real thing. My problem (as stated before) is specifically with a file system that's been set up so it leaves me the owner

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 18:59, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > The problem is this. How long do you want `ls -l' take? Checking > > permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the > > user's token. > > The only token that's relevant for the ACL mapping w.r.t. POSIX > seman

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > The problem is this. How long do you want `ls -l' take? Checking > permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the > user's token. The only token that's relevant for the ACL mapping w.r.t. POSIX semantics is that of the current user and Cygwin should

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 9 10:46, David A. Wheeler wrote: > Corinna Vinschen: > > The problem is this. How long do you want `ls -l' take? Checking > > permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the > > user's token. The access check can be improved and the permissions > > more correctly shown

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-09 Thread David A. Wheeler
Corinna Vinschen: > The problem is this. How long do you want `ls -l' take? Checking > permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the > user's token. The access check can be improved and the permissions > more correctly shown for the current user, but for any file and any > u

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 6 12:51, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > - Change handling of group permissions if owner SID == group SID. Now the > > group permissions don't mirror the user permissions anymore, thus leading > > to less hassle with security-conscious applications. > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > This may happen on Linux as well. Just tested on a NAS runnig Debian, > in a "share" partition: In that case you've explicitly cleared the filemodes for the owner of the file. I'm talking about a case where the file access is purely based on ACL, there are no ACL for the ow

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-07 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 06.03.2015 um 13:51 schrieb Achim Gratz: Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: - Change handling of group permissions if owner SID == group SID. Now the group permissions don't mirror the user permissions anymore, thus leading to less hassle with security-conscious applications. There

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > - Change handling of group permissions if owner SID == group SID. Now the > group permissions don't mirror the user permissions anymore, thus leading > to less hassle with security-conscious applications. There's another tricky situation that is not yet