/usr/local, /var and */tmp in c:\Users\Public
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 13 22:09:00 GMT 2014
On Nov 13 22:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 13 14:09, Warren Young wrote:
> > On Nov 13, 2014, at 2:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 12 17:19, Warren Young wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I’m not advocating that step so early, but maybe if this breakup does
> > >> happen, a few years later setup.exe can start applying some strong
> > >> ACLs to files it writes.
> > >
> > > ??? What "strong" ACLs?
> >
> > The ones that are not there right now. :)
> >
> > Just to pick a random example:
> >
> > $ ls -l /bin/ls.exe
> > -rwxrwxr-x 1 Warren None 116253 Oct 13 10:12 /bin/ls.exe
> >
> > The same file’s permissions, from Windows’ perspective:
> >
> > http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/ls-perms.png
>
> icacls output would be more helpful than a picture.
>
> However, this isn't really a problem. The group permissions are
> apparently faked by Cygwin, they don't reflect the reality. I just
> don't remember why this is done, it's probably old. Have to check...
Btw., I never saw this happen. Did you install for "just you", or
in a non-elevated Setup? In my case the permissions make at least
sense, even if my own account still has full access:
$ ls -l /bin/ls.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna vinschen 116253 Oct 13 18:12 /bin/ls.exe
Corinna
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