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Re: Problems with CPAN

Nooooo.  It's way easier.  If an application uses stat() and
checks the uid against the posix permission bits, it fails
since your uid is definitely not the uid of the admins group.

<snip rest of highly techie explanation>
In what sense are you using the phrase 'way easier' in the first sentence? The rest of your stuff goes right over the head of this part of the target audience!
in fact is was easier:
- the perl script checked the permission - what went wrong since NT ACLs are much more complicated than unix RWX-stuff
- bash does not use any test - it just opens/runs the file to check if it has access.

but: shouldn't there be a better conversion of NT-ACLs to unix-perms?
perhaps a POSIX-ACL implementation?


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