Cygwin file permission issues

Derek Greer dbgreer@gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 17:47:00 GMT 2010


>
> Are you setting permissions in cygwin with a 2775 on directories? Its my understanding the cygwin dll overwrites the windows permissions mode in favor of its own. So then you have to use set gid or set uid on the directory
>
> Hope this helps
> -R


I haven't tried this, but wouldn't this just affect the owner of the
file?  If so, this isn't really what I'm after.  What I'm looking for
is a way to ensure that all files and folders created have full access
for 'Domain Users'.

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