File permissions on Vista

2009-12-23 Thread Mark Stewart
I saw Corinna Vinschen's posting http://lists-archives.org/cygwin/30817-file-permission-hassles-on-vista.html Vista, these attributes give the file a 'shared' property, which adds a shared file overlay on the GUI icons. If you try to manipulate files from the Windows GUI, things become VERY

Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be "how to deal with UAC"?]

2007-05-31 Thread Arnaud Legout
Hi, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 5/29/07, morgan gangwere wrote: - cut out Arnaud's information and Morgan's PGP header / footer - Cant we make setup.exe check if its Vista? i mean, its an environment variable! UAC does some odd things to user access and permissions. http://blogs.msdn.com

Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be "how to deal with UAC"?]

2007-05-30 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 5/29/07, morgan gangwere wrote: - cut out Arnaud's information and Morgan's PGP header / footer - Cant we make setup.exe check if its Vista? i mean, its an environment variable! UAC does some odd things to user access and permissions. Just a thought, Morgan Gangwere http://blogs.msdn.c

Re: file permissions on vista

2007-05-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Arnaud Legout wrote: > Hello Brian, > > Brian Dessent wrote: >> I can't reproduce this. I right click and create a new Notepad file >> foo.txt, it has the permissions: >> > > may be you have deactivated the UAC as morgan suggested? >> The permissions on a file created with native Windows meth

Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be "how to deal with UAC"?]

2007-05-29 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Legout wrote: > I forgot to CC the mailing list. > > > > > Subject: > Re: file permissions on vista > From: > Arnaud Legout <[EMAIL PRO

[Fwd: Re: file permissions on vista]

2007-05-29 Thread Arnaud Legout
I forgot to CC the mailing list. --- Begin Message --- Hello Morgan, morgan gangwere wrote: 1 - Turn Off UAC I turned it off, and now when I create a file, the access rights are u+rwx. Also the user is Administrator, whereas it was my username when I have UAC on. So I suppose that Brian

Re: file permissions on vista

2007-05-29 Thread Arnaud Legout
Hello Brian, Brian Dessent wrote: I can't reproduce this. I right click and create a new Notepad file foo.txt, it has the permissions: may be you have deactivated the UAC as morgan suggested? The permissions on a file created with native Windows methods should inherit from the parent fold

Re: file permissions on vista

2007-05-28 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Dessent wrote: > Arnaud Legout wrote: > >> I have the latest version of cygwin installed >> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 cecile 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin >> >> When create a file or a folder in vista (using the explorer or a windows >> app

Re: file permissions on vista

2007-05-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Arnaud Legout wrote: > I have the latest version of cygwin installed > CYGWIN_NT-6.0 cecile 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin > > When create a file or a folder in vista (using the explorer or a windows > application), > the file or folder is created without any right (like when a ch

file permissions on vista

2007-05-28 Thread Arnaud Legout
Hi, I have the latest version of cygwin installed CYGWIN_NT-6.0 cecile 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin When create a file or a folder in vista (using the explorer or a windows application), the file or folder is created without any right (like when a chmod 000 is applied). Thi