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Re: NT extended attributes
- To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna dot vinschen at cityweb dot de>
- Subject: Re: NT extended attributes
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at sigma6 dot com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 07:30:24 -0400
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: sigma6
- References: <3624EC83.4FFB601D@sigma6.com> <3626728D.56BD377C@cityweb.de>
Yes, I *think* chown works, I'll verify tomorrow... under NT "change
ownership" is one of the rights that can be granted on a file, so any
user can generally assign ownership of his own files... right?
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Jeff Sturm wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone explain how NTFS security maps to the cygwin32 POSIX-ish
> > user/group/other file permissions? I've tried to set up a
> > somewhat-secure login environment on NT. Working as administrator, I
> > can create folders and set their ownership through cygwin32 (chown
> > works). So the folder looks like
>
> Very interesting, chown works?
> If, as administrator, I do a
> chown anyuser anyfile
> I get a
> Permission denied
>
> If, as administrator, I do a
> chown administrator anyfile
> I get no error but nothing has happened.
>
> Corinna
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