Oddity when working with webdrive mounted network drives

[Robert Pendell]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan  8 11:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jan  7 16:23, Robert Pendell wrote:
>> > $ ls -n /cygdrive/w
>> > total 44M
>> > drwxrwxrwx 1 4294967295 4294967295 4.0K 2009-11-04 03:20 Maildir/
>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>   And that means the SIDs of owner and group are not known to Cygwin,
>>   since they are not present in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.  The permissions
>>   are taken from what the OS call to fetch the ACL returns.
>
> Let me rephrase.  The permissions as well as the SIDs are taken from
> what the OS returns for that drive.  You should check the ACL content
> for files and dirs on that drive using cacls or the GUI.  That's what
> Cygwin gets to see as well.
>
>
> Corinna
>

Thanks for the clarifications.  I can't use cacls on them as it comes
back saying the parameter is incorrect.  I should note that cacls is
depreciated on Vista and Windows 7 so icacls should be used instead
where available.  The command lines are different but they do the same
thing.

$ icacls Maildir
Maildir  No permissions are set. All users have full control.
Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

That part explains it.  Webdrive has an option to enable NTFS Security
which makes them full access to pretty much any program.  I can see
the actual permissions through the programs panel.  Just wondering why
it doesn't put anything realistic on the files themselves.  Oh well.
This isn't a cygwin issue anyways.

Robert Pendell
shinji@elite-systems.org
CAcert Assurer
"A perfect world is one of chaos."

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