Re: Cygwin Everyone group permissions and Vista "shared files" (*not* shared folders)

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Barry Kelly wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > If that's not feasible, switch off ntsec and you get standard Windows
> > permissions.  If the standard Windows permissions are not as you need
> > them, don't rely on Cygwin's chown/chmod. rather change the inheritence
> > settings of the parent directory according to your needs.  Then you get
> > the required permissions right from the start.  Nothing against using
> > chown/chmod in some border cases, Berry, but in your situation they are
> > just a workaround for bad permission settings.
>
> I guess I will just have to reimplement chown and chmod, it seems.

Perhaps you're better off with the available tools for ACLs?  Just a
thought.

> PS: I don't know what it is that makes some people get my name wrong,
> but there you go.

Don't let it get you down Berry.

--
Lerry ;-)


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