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Re: A permissions puzzle
Greetings, Eliot Moss!
>> For things outside Cygwin root, I strongly suggest "noacl" option.
>> Then you won't even need to chown or chmod, except in dire circumstances,
>> where some careless program forcibly set permissions to something like 0750.
> So how would I do that for a removable NTFS drive?
Even more reason not to use emulated POSIX permissions.
> It's not certain what drive letter it will pop up under.
Don't use drive letters, and you will reduce the vector of attack on your
system significantly.
> Of course the drive has a specific label, but I am not sure if/how that can be used ...
> getVolInfo can get it, of course, but this seems beyond the semantics of mount and fstab ...
Drive has specific network path, use it.
> I'm not saying I _need_ to do this; I got things going for now.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, December 22, 2019 15:32:57
Sorry for my terrible english...
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