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Re: Suddenly, all files have executable attribute bits set! -- Problem solved
- From: James Shaw <qumqam at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:19:05 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Suddenly, all files have executable attribute bits set! -- Problem solved
--- Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net> wrote:
> > --- I (James Shaw) wrote:
> > The bug is that all files show up as executable!
>
> This is because "ntsec" is now on by default, and
> Windows gives execute
> permission to everything that has read permission in
> its default ACLs.
> Either set CYGWIN=nontsec, or read up about ntsec in
> the Cygwin User Guide.
Hi Max,
Thanks, that was the config problem. I've set CYGWIN
to nontsec and everything is back to normal.
Thanks again, James
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