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Re: Question: Desired owner/group when running setup-1.7.exe
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 14:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Sorry, but this is getting too complicated. ÂI thought I'm asking a
> simple question. ÂI was just trying to help this along so that the least
> number of people have trouble with the default file permissions.
>
> Here's another simple approach:
>
> ÂKeep all ownership as it is. ÂJust add an ACE for the administrators
> Âgroup with rw- access rights to the ACL of files created/unpacked by
> Âsetup.
>
I like that one too.
Maybe even more simple would be to assign that ACE to the cygwin root,
in the first install, and let it be inherited throughout all cygwin
tree.
PS: It really should be rwx, right?
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Julio Costa