setfacl can kill a drive

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Steven Penny!

>> I upgraded to the new Cygwin today, why is this command producing different
>> permissions? Moreover how do I get it to produce sane results?

> I was able to use these command to produce sane results

>     $ cd /cygdrive/c

>     $ touch bad.txt

>     $ setfacl -k .

>     $ touch good.txt

>     $ ls -l *.txt
>     -rw-rwxr--+ 1 John None 0 Apr  8 02:16 bad.txt
>     -rw-r--r--  1 John None 0 Apr  8 02:16 good.txt

> I feel that the default permissions are wrong here. On linux when you create a
> new file with touch, it does not have executable permissions, for good reason.
> This would be a security issue.

Cygwin is not Linux.
And C:\ drive is not a part of Cygwin.
If you really want to destroy your Windows installation, there's easier ways
than meddling with setfacl on the root drive.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, April 9, 2015 00:45:45

Sorry for my terrible english...


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