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Re: All Windows-created files seem to have mode -rwxrwxrwx


For whatever this is worth:

Setting CYGWIN to "ntea nontsec" seems to bring things to normal.

I guess it's not my destiny to ever understand the intricacies of "ntsec" :-)

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* From: "lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com" <lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com>
* To: cke at highlandshighspeed dot net, cygwin at cygwin dot com
* Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:57:40 -0500
* Subject: Re: All Windows-created files seem to have mode -rwxrwxrwx
* Reply-to: lhall at rfk dot com

'ntsec' is on by default since since Cygwin package 1.3.13.

Larry


Original Message:
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From: Chris K Ellsworth cke@highlandshighspeed.net
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:44:05 -0800
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: All Windows-created files seem to have mode -rwxrwxrwx


you probly need ntsec also

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan Dobrianov" <ivan@dobrianov.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:34 AM
Subject: All Windows-created files seem to have mode -rwxrwxrwx


> Sorry is this has been asked 1000 times, but even though there are many
> references to permissions setting in the FAQ and User guide, nohting
> explains the following.
>
> THE FACTS: I have "Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service
> Pack 1" and Cygwin cygwin_1.3.14-1 gotten and installed yesterday, with
> settings "CYGWIN = `ntea'" and the disks are NTFS, e.g.:
> e: hd NTFS 70001Mb 13% CP CS UN PA FC DATA
>
> THE PROBLEM: All is well except that all Windows-created files seem to
> have permissions -rwxrwxrwx. Including text files created by say
> Notepad. All are "executable".
>
> I have no problem with reading or chaning permissions from inside
> Cygwin. Also files created from Cygwin have reasonable permissions:
> -rw-rw-rw-. It is just file created from Windows applications that are
> always executable.
>
> Any clues? Thanks!
>
> PS: I do not want to bother with 'ntsec' - security is not an issue at
> the moment.
> PS2: I have used previous versions of cygwin on a number of NTFS-disked
> machins and never seen this.
>


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