RE: [Windows Security] User rights inherited from parent directory

["Vince" <jhary at unsane dot co dot uk>]

> > When I copy a file into that folder using the Windows Explorer, it 
> > works as expected by me.  However---now the relation to 
> cygwin---using 
> > `cp' sets the user rights in the access list of the copied file to 
> > other values.
> 
>   Well, yes, of course it does.  'cp' behaves like the POSIX 
> version, setting rights according to the umask; and POSIX 
> only knows about UGO rights, so the newly-copied files get 
> the nearest approximation in that scheme to their original 
> ACLs.  'cp' does not know about Windoze ACLs because POSIX 
> does not know about Windoze ACLS.  If you want to have files 
> that use the POSIX perms model, use cygwin's 'cp' command, 
> but if you want to have files that use the full Windoze ACLs, 
> use a windows copy command.
> 

Its been a while but if I remember rightly, if you don't want cygwin 
to set the permissions then add nontsec to your CYGWIN environment
Variable and windows will handle permssions for you so permissions are 
inherited. 

Vince
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
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