Cygwin Everyone group permissions and Vista "shared files" (*not* shared folders)

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Barry Kelly wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>> If that's not feasible, switch off ntsec and you get standard Windows
>> permissions.  If the standard Windows permissions are not as you need
>> them, don't rely on Cygwin's chown/chmod. rather change the inheritence
>> settings of the parent directory according to your needs.  Then you get
>> the required permissions right from the start.  Nothing against using
>> chown/chmod in some border cases, Berry, but in your situation they are
>> just a workaround for bad permission settings.
> 
> I guess I will just have to reimplement chown and chmod, it seems.

Perhaps you're better off with the available tools for ACLs?  Just a
thought.

> PS: I don't know what it is that makes some people get my name wrong,
> but there you go.

Don't let it get you down Berry.

--
Lerry ;-)


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/