Vista + cygwin basics

[Charles Wilson]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Correction - it doesn't try to do anything with the permissions as
> stated in the tarball.  At startup it does try to set a DACL in the
> process token that contains Everyone:full.  However, as I understand it,
> the DACL only applies to files created in situations where they would
> not otherwise inherit an ACL, so if the Vista default for C:\ contains
> inheritable settings (as I would imagine it has to) then this wouldn't
> apply.

I used the Windows Properties dialog on C:\cygwin to add 
'Administrator:Full Control' on my existing cygwin installation (since I 
had done very little personalization, there were no "private" files 
belonging to my unprivileged self to worry about).

This propagated down to all contained objects.

Now the perms/ACLs look a bit more sane.

$ ls -l aatest.exe
-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrator Users 6144 Mar 20 13:53 aatest.exe

$ getfacl aatest.exe
# file: aatest.exe
# owner: Administrator
# group: Users
user::rwx
group::r-x
group:SYSTEM:rwx
group:Administrators:rwx
mask:rwx
other:---

It's not that anything was noticeably broken -- it's just that things 
looked so WEIRD I didn't really try to DO anything; afraid that I might 
have to wipe out any customizations and start over.  Now, I've been 
involved with cygwin for a long time, but Vista+cygwin gives me the 
creeping heebie-jeebies...or maybe I'm just over-thinking it.

--
Chuck

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