NT extended attributes
Corinna Vinschen
corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de
Thu Oct 15 17:14:00 GMT 1998
Jeff Sturm wrote:
>
> Can anyone explain how NTFS security maps to the cygwin32 POSIX-ish
> user/group/other file permissions? I've tried to set up a
> somewhat-secure login environment on NT. Working as administrator, I
> can create folders and set their ownership through cygwin32 (chown
> works). So the folder looks like
Very interesting, chown works?
If, as administrator, I do a
chown anyuser anyfile
I get a
Permission denied
If, as administrator, I do a
chown administrator anyfile
I get no error but nothing has happened.
Corinna
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