[Fwd: Re: Newbie: How to get permissions working with 'ntsec']

[Garry Heaton]

I've tried all these ntsec/ntea combinations but still have 
no permissions. Can anyone tell me how to get Cygwin working 
with standard UNIX file permissions? No-one seems to know how.

Garry Heaton


On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:59:26AM -0400, Norman Vine wrote:
> >> CYGWIN = `ntsec ntea check_case:strict'
> 
> can ntsec and ntea be used together ??

>> ntsec overrides ntea on NTFS, ntea will still work on FAT, though.
>> I suggest to switch ntea off.  It creates a special file on FAT
>> filesystems which grows more and more and which can't be deleted
>> with simple operations.
>>
>> I suggest not to use check_case:strict, too.  We created it for
>> a customer.  Case checking is only implemented inside of the
>> path evalutaion routines in Cygwin.  The underlying filesystems
>> are still only case preserving.  You will run into problems
>> which are pretty hard to track down as a user.
>> If you like checking the case, at least switch to check_case:adjust
>> which is somewhat less nitpicking.

>> Corinna

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