Re: Shares with strange ACL settings

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 13 19:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 13 18:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 12 20:59, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > > >> I think so, but there are likely some corner cases.  But I think that
> > > >> had been proposed and shot down already, so I was trying to come up with
> > > >> something less intrusive.
> > > >
> > > > This is relatively unintrusive.  The current user token is always
> > > > available.  So if owner == current user, for every group in the file's
> > > > ACL just check if it's in the current user token and, if so, add the
> > > > perms of that group to the owner perms.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds pretty neat as an intermediate solution to me.
> > > 
> > > I'd play the guinea pig for that snapshotâ :-)
> > 
> > This puzzles me a bit.  As example you gave something like
> > [blah]
> Oh, I get it.  This is *because* the current Cygwin doesn't check
> membership of all groups in the ACL.

I checked in the change we were talking about.  Please give the latest
snapshot from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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