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Re: Permission bits
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:21:29 -0500
- Subject: Re: Permission bits
- References: <3E5E9DDB.8000103@Salira.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:23:07PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they
>map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't.
>Can somebody explain to me the following:
>
>On my Windows XP box at home I can easily manipulate permissions:
>
>[Home XP]: touch file
>[Home XP]: ls -l file
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file
>[Home XP]: chmod 777 file
>[Home XP]: ls -l file
>-rwxrwxrwx 1 Andrew DeFaria 0 Feb 27 15:13 file*
>
>However on my work XP box:
>
>[Work XP]: touch file
>[Work XP]: ls -l file
>-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file
>[Work XP]: chmod 777 file
>[Work XP]: ls -l file
>-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Feb 27 15:18 file
>
>Now I'm wondering why I can chmod here?!? The only difference that I see
>is that at home my home directory is simply on my C drive and I'm not in
>a domain while at work my home directory is mapped from a server to my H
>drive. I know that this oddity is happening because Windows permissions
>are not equal to Posix permissions and I've tried everything I know how
>to do to get Windows to allow me to open up the permissions from a Posix
>perspective. Anybody know how I could get it so that a chmod 666 file
>will actually yield me a rw-rw-rw mask?
ntsec only works on NTFS drives.
cgf
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