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Re: cygwin potentially corrupting permissions?


Greetings, Greg Freemyer!

> We seem to travel the same mailing lists.  This is my first time to cygwin's.

> I saved your script as "lsacl.txt".  Then I used "cp lsacl.txt it" to
> make a copy.

> The copy is permission denied for reading.  Basic ls -l shows no
> difference (as expected)

> $ ls -l lsacl.sh it
> ----rwx---+ 1 gaf None 1630 Sep 24 12:05 it
> ----rwx---+ 1 gaf None 1630 Sep 24 12:00 lsacl.sh

Notice the "+" at the end of basic POSIX access bits.
And use getfacl (or native icacl(s)) to view real permissions.

> But your script does show a difference:

> $ ./lsacl.sh lsacl.sh it
> [u::---,g::---,g:root:rwx,g:Authenticated Users:rwx,g:SYSTEM:rwx,g:Users:r-x,m:rwx,o:---/] lsacl.sh
> [u::---,g::r-x,g:root:rwx,g:Authenticated Users:rwx,g:SYSTEM:rwx,g:Users:r-x,m:rwx,o:---/] it

> My user id is "gaf".

> fyi: I thought I knew how to read an ACL, but the above makes little
> sense to me.  Note I can cat out "lsacl.sh", but I can't cat out "it".

Your system seems to be mangled. There should be no "root" user.

Also, please avoid top posting as per list rules.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, September 24, 2015 21:35:24

Sorry for my terrible english...


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