MS-DFSR conflict with cygwin file permissions

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 23 02:29:00 GMT 2009


Stefan Walter wrote:
> If you redirect output in cmd.exe to a file (echo "Hello world..." 
>  >output.txt), then the file "output.txt" have the file permissions 
> inherited from the parent folder.
> 
> If you redirect output in bash.exe to a file, then the file permissions 
> are restricted.
> 
> I need this solved, because the current given permission conflict with 
> the Microsoft DFSr.
> 
> Is there a way to create files with permissions inherited from parent 
> folder?

Read the section about NT security in the User's Guide
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html> and then try setting 'nontsec'
in your CYGWIN environment variable
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>.

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